Genetic control of susceptibility to diethylnitrosamine and dimethylbenzanthracene carcinogenesis in rats.

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Genetic control of susceptibility to diethylnitrosamine and dimethylbenzanthracene carcinogenesis in rats.

The American journal of pathology - 1 Jul 1991

Melhem M F, Kunz H W, Gill T J

Abstract excerpt

The susceptibility to cancer induction after a single dose of diethylnitrosamine in male rats and a single dose of dimethylbenzanthracene in female rats was examined in the grc- strain R16 and the grc+ strain ACP, both of which have the same major histocompatibility complex genes but differ in th...

Topics

9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
Animals
Diethylnitrosamine
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Liver
Liver Neoplasms
Male
Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental
Necrosis
Neoplasms, Experimental
Rats

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