Administration of diethylnitrosamine in the immediate postnatal period coupled with exposure to a choline deficient diet accelerates hepatocarcinogenesis in the rat

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 345-352

  Hemmings, Susan ^a   Strickland, Judee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diethylnitrosamine; Hepatocarcinogenesis; Nodules; Premalignancy; glutamyltranspeptidase

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER HOMOGENATE; LIVER NODULE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COCARCINOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FISCHER 344 RAT; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PUERPERIUM; TIME; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

MARTES PENNANTI;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; COCARCINOGENESIS; DIET; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0036434183     PISSN: 10158987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067904     Document Type: Article

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