Tumor target organs and rate of survival in long-living transgenic mice and their parental wild-type counterparts exposed to the carcinogen dimethylbenz(a)anthracene

In Vivo

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-548

  Kossoy, George ^a   Ben Hur, Herzl ^b   Miskin, Rut ^c   Zusman, Itshak ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Kiryat Weitzman   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Carcinogenesis; Long living mice

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CORN OIL; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FORESTOMACH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARENT; SKIN TUMOR; STOMACH TUMOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TARGET ORGAN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUBE FEEDING; WILD TYPE;

EID: 33746934100     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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