cDNA cloning and expression of two Ki-ras genes in the flounder, Platichthys flesus, and analysis of hepatic neoplasms

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-27

  Vincent Hubert, Françoise ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer risk assessment; Chemical carcinogenesis; Environmental risk factors; Liver tumors; Marine flatfish; Marine pollution; Molecular epidemiology; Ras proto oncogene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EXON; FLOUNDER; INTRON; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA POLLUTION;

PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 0034118948     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(00)00179-6     Document Type: Article

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