In search of the cause of gastric cancer

In Vivo

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-138

  Kodama, Mitsuo ^a   Kodama, Toshiko ^a  

^a Kodama Res Inst of Prev Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophic gastritis; Etiology; Gastric cancer; N nitrosomethylurea; Oncog ene tumor suppressor gene complex; Salt excess; Scurvy prone rat; Steroid disorder; Thermodynamics; Vitamin C deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ASCORBIC ACID; GESTAGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDERS OF STEROID METABOLISM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STEROID METABOLISM; STOMACH CANCER; THERMODYNAMICS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0034075531     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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