Inhibition by ethinylestradiol of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-initiated uterine carcinogenesis in transgenic mice carrying a human prototype c-Ha-ras gene (rasH2 mice)

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 496-505

  Watanabe, Takao ^a   Kashida, Yoko ^a   Ueda, Makoto ^b   Onodera, Hiroshi ^b   Takizawa, Tamotsu ^b   Hirose, Masao ^b   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen; N ethyl N nitrosourea; rasH2 mice; Uterine carcinogenesis

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SIZE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; SURVIVAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0141453256     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230309785     Document Type: Article

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