Altered expression of connexins in urethane-induced mouse lung adenomas

Life Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2202-2208

  Avanzo, José Luis ^a   Mesnil, Marc ^b   Hernandez Blazquez, Francisco Javier ^c   da Silva, Tereza Cristina ^a   Fukumasu, Heidge ^a   Mori, Claudia Madalena Cabrera ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^d   Dagli, Maria Lúcia Zaidan ^a  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Connexin; Connexin43; Gap junction; Lung; Mouse; Real time PCR; Urethane

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 46; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ADENOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CONNEXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; URETHANE;

EID: 33750447653     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2006.07.033     Document Type: Article

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