Melatonin and colon carcinogenesis. IV. Effect of melatonin on proliferative activity and expression of apoptosis-related proteins in the spleen of rats exposed to 1,2-dimethylhydrazine

Oncology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1401-1405

  Kossoy, George ^a   Ben Hur, Herzl ^b   Popovich, Irina ^c   Zabezhinski, Mark ^c   Anisimov, Vladimir ^c   Zusman, Itshak ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c N N PETROV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Colon carcinoma; Lymphoid cells; Melatonin; Splenic immune response; T cells

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARCINOGEN; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SPLEEN;

1,2-DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MELATONIN; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0034320122     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.7.6.1401     Document Type: Article

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