A novel animal model of thymic tumour: Development of epithelial thymoma in transgenic rats carrying human T lymphocyte virus type I pX gene

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 247-256

  Kikuchi, Kazunori ^a,b,e   Ikeda, Hitoshi ^a   Tsuchikawa, Takahiro ^a   Tsuji, Takahiro ^a   Tanaka, Satoshi ^a   Fugo, Kazunori ^a   Sugaya, Toshiaki ^a   Tanaka, Yuetsu ^c   Tateno, Masatoshi ^d,f   Maruyama, Naoki ^b   Yoshiki, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^f ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epithelial thymoma; HTLV I pX gene; Transgenic rat; Tumorigenicity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PX GENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPINDLE CELL; THYMOMA; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0036820351     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2613.2003.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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