K-ras Mutations in Lung Tumors and Tumors from Other Organs are Consistent with a Common Mechanism of Ethylene Oxide Tumorigenesis in the B6C3F1 Mouse

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-85

  Hong, Hue Hua L ^a   Houle, Christopher D ^b   Ton, Thai vu T ^a   Sills, Robert C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

carcinogen; ethylene oxide; Harderian gland; K ras; lung; mice; neoplasm; uterus

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HARDER GLAND; LACRIMAL GLAND TUMOR; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DISINFECTANTS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HARDERIAN GLAND; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTATION; SEBACEOUS GLAND NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33847277045     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230601063839     Document Type: Article

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