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Genetic predisposition to transplacentally induced renal cell carcinomas in the Eker rat.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 1993
Hino O, Mitani H, Knudson A G
Abstract excerpt
N-Ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced transplacental renal carcinogenesis in the rat results primarily in Wilms' tumors, apparently because primitive nephroblasts are the preferred target. Our question is whether N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mutations in the fetal kidney would increase the number of adult-type renal cell carcinomas in the Eker rat, which is heterozygous for a mutation that predisposes to renal cell...
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