Depleted uranium induces neoplastic transformation in human lung epithelial cells

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 373-378

  Xie, Hong ^a   LaCerte, Carolyne ^a   Thompson, W Douglas ^a   Wise Sr , John Pierce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM; URANIUM DERIVATIVE; URANIUM TRIOXIDE;

ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; PHENOTYPE;

CARCINOGENS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; LUNG; URANIUM;

EID: 77049118771     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx9003598     Document Type: Article

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