Different frequencies and patterns of β-catenin mutations in hepatocellular carcinomas induced by N-nitrosodiethylamine and a choline- deficient L-amino acid-defined diet in rats

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3904-3907

  Tsujiuchi, Toshifumi ^a   Tsutsumi, Masahiro ^a   Sasaki, Yasutaka ^a   Takahama, Makoto ^a   Konishi, Yoichi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA CATENIN; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOGENS; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIET; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0033566982     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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