Analysis of β-Catenin, Ki-ras, and Microsatellite Stability in Azoxymethane-Induced Colon Tumors of BDIX/Or1 Ico Rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 633-638

  Sørensen, Nanna Møller ^a   Kobæk Larsen, Morten ^a   Bonne, Anita ^b   Van Zutphen, Bert ^b   Fenger, Claus ^a   Kristiansen, Karsten ^c   Ritskes Hoitinga, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; PROTO ONCOGENE KI RAS; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0347088880     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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