Homozygous K5Cre transgenic mice have wavy hair and accelerated malignant progression in a murine model of skin carcinogenesis

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-59

  Chan, Edward L ^a   Peace, Belinda E ^b   Toney, Kenya ^b   Kader, Sarah A ^b   Pathrose, Peterson ^b   Collins, Margaret H ^b   Waltz, Susan E ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR); Keratin 5 Cre recombinase (K5Cre); Malignant progression; Skin carcinogenesis; Wavy hair

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; KERATIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ALOPECIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESEARCH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; LACTATION; LOXP SITE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MILK PRODUCTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIBRISSA; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

ALOPECIA; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COCARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMOZYGOTE; INTEGRASES; KERATIN-5; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PAPILLOMA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33846198396     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: 10982744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mc.20192     Document Type: Article

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