Rapid induction of uterine endometrial proliferative lesions in transgenic mice carrying a human prototype c-Ha-ras gene (rasH2 mice) given a single intraperitoneal injection of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea

Cancer Letters

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 39-46

  Watanabe, Takao ^a   Kashida, Yoko ^a   Yasuhara, Kazuo ^b   Koujitani, Takatoshi ^b   Hirose, Masao ^b   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

N ethyl N nitrosourea; RasH2 mice; Uterine carcinogenesis

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ADENOMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN PAPILLOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POINT MUTATION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037114368     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(02)00158-1     Document Type: Article

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