Variant mutational activation of the K-ras oncogene in renal mesenchymal tumors induced in newborn F344 rats by methyl(methoxymethyl)nitrosamine

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2625-2630

  Higinbotham, Kathleen G ^a   Rice, Jerry M ^a   Reed, Carl D ^a   Watatani, Masahiro ^a   Enomoto, Takayuki ^a   Anderson, Lucy M ^a   Perantoni, Alan O ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NITROSAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFECTION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MUTATION; NITROSAMINES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 12644304240     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.12.2625     Document Type: Article

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