Crypt-restricted metallothionein immunopositivity in murine colon: Validation of a model for studies of somatic stem cell mutation

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 306-312

  Cook, Helen Anne ^a   Williams, Dillwyn ^a   Thomas, Geraldine Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colon; Crypt; Immunocytochemistry; Metallothionein; Mouse model; Stem cell somatic mutation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL KINETICS; COLON; CRYPT CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; COLON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0033918676     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(200007)191:3<306::AID-PATH642>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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