Do dogs harbour risk factors for human breast cancer?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-26

  Laumbacher, B ^a   Fellerhoff, B ^a   Herzberger, B ^a   Wank, R ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTERNET; LEG; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATS; DOGS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 33646114069     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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