Correspondence between flat aberrant crypt foci and mucin-depleted foci in rodent colon carcinogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6 A, 2008, Pages 3771-3775

  Femia, Angelo Pietro ^a   Paulsen, Jan Erik ^b   Dolara, Piero ^a   Alexander, Jan ^b   Caderni, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Colon carcinogenesis; Flat aberrant crypt foci; Mucin depleted foci; Preneoplastic lesions

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ALCIAN BLUE; AZOXYMETHANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAMINE; IRON; METHYLENE BLUE; MUCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; FISCHER 344 RAT; MALE; MIN MOUSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; METHYLENE BLUE; MICE; MUCINS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 58149160019     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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