Article
Quantitating the frequency of initiation and cH-ras mutation in in situ N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-exposed rat mammary gland.
Cell growth & differentiation : the molecular biology journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 1991
Zhang R, Haag J D, Gould M N
Abstract excerpt
Mammary carcinogenesis is a multistep process consisting minimally of initiation and promotion/progression stages. The rate-limiting stage in the carcinogenesis process is undetermined but can in part be addressed by estimating the frequency of initiation, a heritable early event. Here, we use an in vivo limiting dilution transplantation assay to estimate initiation frequency in a rat mammary epithelial stem-like...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Survival
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, ras
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental
- Methylnitrosourea
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
