Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection associated with low incidence of 1, 2-dimethylhydrazine-induced colon cancer in rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 737-740

  Oliveira, E C ^a,b   Leite, M S B ^a   Miranda, J A R ^b   Andrade, A L S S ^c   Garcia, S B ^a   Luquetti, A O ^b   Moreira, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Medicina   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLAGELLATE; INOCULATION; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TUMOR RESISTANCE;

1,2-DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0035033558     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/22.5.737     Document Type: Article

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