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DNA synthesis, apoptosis, and phenotypic expression as determinants of growth of altered foci in rat liver during phenobarbital promotion.
Cancer research - 15 Aug 1990
Schulte-Hermann R, Timmermann-Trosiener I, Barthel G, Bursch W
Abstract excerpt
Carcinogenesis was initiated in female rat liver by a single dose of N-nitrosomorpholine; subsequently phenobarbital (PB) was administered via the diet at a daily dose of 50 mg/kg body weight for up to 49 weeks. Subgroups of rats were left untreated after 10 or 28 weeks on PB. PB produced the following changes: (a) accelerated appearance of neoplastic nodules and hepatocellular carcinoma (from 28 weeks onwards);...
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