Is nicotine the estrogen of lung cancer?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1081-1082

  Spindel, Eliot R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (METHYLNITROSAMINO) 1 (3 PYRIDYL) 1 BUTANONE; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CARCINOGEN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOKING CESSATION;

BUNGAROTOXINS; CARCINOGENS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NICOTINE; NITROSAMINES; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 67449096128     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200901-0013ED     Document Type: Editorial

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