Rac1 promotes diethylnitrosamine (DEN) - Induced formation of liver tumors

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 378-389

  Bopp, Anita ^a   Wartlick, Friedrich ^a   Henninger, Christian ^a   Schwarz, Michael ^c   Kaina, Bernd ^b   Fritz, Gerhard ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYCLIN B1; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H3; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; LIVER ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PROTEIN P27; PROTEIN P53; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; UVOMORULIN; CARCINOGEN; ENZYME; EXONUCLEASE; H2AX PROTEIN, MOUSE; HISTONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; RAC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RAD1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSFORMED CELL; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CYCLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EXPERIMENTAL LIVER NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CARCINOGENS; CELL CYCLE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYMES; EXONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HISTONES; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RAS PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924430060     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgu323     Document Type: Article

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