Article
Role of the maternal environment in determining susceptibility to transplacentally induced chemical carcinogenesis in mouse fetuses.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 1990
Miller M S, Jones A B, Chauhan D P, Anderson L M
Abstract excerpt
Treatment of pregnant mice with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) causes lung and liver tumors in the offspring, the incidences of which are greatly influenced by the Ah locus regulated induction phenotype for aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity (AHH) in both the mother and fetuses. In order to examine the biochemical and molecular mechanisms responsible for the modulating effect of maternal environment on tumor...
Topics
- Animals
- Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Disease Susceptibility
- Enzyme Induction
- Female
- Fetus
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Liver
- Lung
