Genetic susceptibility to thymic lymphomas and K-ras gene mutation in mice after exposure to X-rays and N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 423-430

  Shimada, Y ^a   Nishimura, M ^a   Kakinuma, S ^a   Ogiu, T ^a   Fujimoto, H ^a   Kubo, A ^a   Nagai, J ^a   Kobayash, K ^c   Tano, K ^b   Yoshinaga, S ^a   Bhakat, K K ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O ALKYLGUANINE DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THYMUS LYMPHOMA; X IRRADIATION;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CODON; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; X-RAYS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0141789641     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0955300031000139371     Document Type: Article

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