Article
Metabolic phenotypes and colorectal neoplasia.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Fettman M J, Butler R N, McMichael A J, Roberts-Thomson I C
Abstract excerpt
It now appears likely that the development of colonic adenomas and carcinomas involves a series of steps in which environmental or endogenous carcinogens induce or promote neoplasia through the accumulation of multiple, specific genetic mutations. Genetic predisposition to this process may take the form of inherited defects in control of cellular proliferation as in familial polyposis coli, or genetically...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Acetyltransferases
- Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Dehydroepiandrosterone
- Glutathione Peroxidase
- Glutathione Transferase
- Humans
- Hydroxylation
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
