Prevalent location of flat dysplastic aberrant crypt foci near lymphoid follicles in the colon of azoxymethane-treated rats

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3 A, 2006, Pages 1803-1807

  Paulsen, Jan Erik ^a   Steffensen, Inger Lise ^a   Ølstørn, Hege Benedikte ^a   Alexander, Jan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aberrant crypt foci; Azoxymethane; Colon carcinogenesis; Lymphoid follicles; Rat

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPLASIA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AZOXYMETHANE; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 33745606457     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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