Suppressive effect of global DNA hypomethylation on gastric carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1627-1633

  Tomita, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirata, Akihiro ^b   Yamada, Yasuhiro ^a,c,d   Hata, Kazuya ^a   Oyama, Takeru ^a   Mori, Hideki ^a   Yamashita, Satoshi ^e   Ushijima, Toshikazu ^e   Hara, Akira ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956276643     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgq129     Document Type: Article

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