Azoxymethane-induced beta-catenin-accumulated crypts in colonic mucosa of rodents as an intermediate biomarker for colon carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-111

  Hirose, Yoshinobu ^b   Kuno, Toshiya ^b   Yamada, Yasuhiro ^b   Sakata, Keiko ^b   Katayama, Masaki ^b   Yoshida, Koujiro ^b   Qiao, Zheng ^b   Hata, Kazuya ^b   Yoshimi, Naoki ^a   Mori, Hideki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; BILE ACID; CARCINOGEN; CHOLIC ACID; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROMOTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPOSURE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTESTINE CRYPT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037278448     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/24.1.107     Document Type: Article

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