N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) induces papillary thyroid tumours which lack ras gene mutations in the hermaphroditic fish Rivulus marmoratus

Teratogenesis Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Lee, Jae Seong ^a,c,d   Park, Eun Ho ^a   Choe, Joonho ^b   Chipman, J Kevin ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Mutation; Papillary thyroid tumour; Ras; Rivulus marmoratus

Indexed keywords

4 (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 1 PIPERAZINEETHANESULFONIC ACID; ALKYLATING AGENT; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; SEA WATER; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; FISH; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE RAS; ONCOGENE SRC; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HERMAPHRODITISM; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE MYC; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

RIVULUS MARMORATUS;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, FOS; GENES, MYC; GENES, RAS; GENES, SRC; HERMAPHRODITISM; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MUTATION; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033621690     PISSN: 02703211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6866(2000)20:1<1::AID-TCM1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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