• Carcinogenesis, also called oncogenesis or tumorigenesis, is the formation of a cancer, whereby normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. The process...
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    is needed into the combined effects of microgravity and radiation on carcinogenesis. The effects of changes in oxygen levels or in immune dysfunction on...
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  • Transplacental carcinogenesis is a series of genotypic and/or phenotypic changes in the cells of a fetus due to in utero exposure to carcinogens. Specifically...
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    Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. It is used either alone or with other antibiotics...
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    mutations in simple repeated sequences reveal a new mechanism for colonic carcinogenesis". Nature. 363 (6429): 558–61. Bibcode:1993Natur.363..558I. doi:10.1038/363558a0...
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  • factors. An unprecedented mechanism of radiation-induced pancreatic carcinogenesis has been highlighted through the concentration and elimination of radiocesium...
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  • Journal of Carcinogenesis is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Carcinogenesis Press. The...
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    noted that increased levels of 8-oxo-dG are frequently found during carcinogenesis. In the figure shown in this section, the colonic epithelium from a...
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  • Carcinogenesis and Ecotoxicology Reviews is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering environmental health as it relates to carcinogenesis...
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    A. (September 2014). "The chemopreventive activity of apple against carcinogenesis: antioxidant activity and cell cycle control". European Journal of Cancer...
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  • that overexpression of Rab GTPases have a striking relationship with carcinogenesis, such as in prostate cancer. There are many mechanisms by which Rab...
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    Tacrolimus, sold under the brand name Prograf among others, is an immunosuppressive drug. After allogenic organ transplant, the risk of organ rejection...
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  • The Armitage–Doll model is a statistical model of carcinogenesis, proposed in 1954 by Peter Armitage and Richard Doll, in which a series of discrete mutations...
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    Tumors are formed by carcinogenesis, a process in which cellular alterations lead to the formation of cancer. Multistage carcinogenesis involves the sequential...
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  • Carcinogenesis is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of cancer biology. It was established in 1980 and is published monthly by Oxford University...
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    A. (1985). "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Carcinogenesis". Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Carcinogenesis. ACS Symposium Series. Vol. 283. American Chemical...
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    cancer cells are described in detail elsewhere (see Cancer main page; Carcinogenesis main page). The precise molecular changes that result in sarcoma are...
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    overall property of these networks, which control chemotaxis, can lead to carcinogenesis. The aberrant chemotaxis of leukocytes and lymphocytes also contribute...
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  • in chemical carcinogenesis was necessary in order to find treatments for cancer. Some of Weisburger's work included studying carcinogenesis, looking at...
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    metaplastic changes are usually considered to be an early phase of carcinogenesis, specifically for those with a history of cancers or who are known to...
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    known as the Warburg theory of cancer, postulates that the driver of carcinogenesis (cancer formation) is insufficient cellular respiration caused by insult...
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    reabsorbed. A function of the gallbladder appears to be protection against carcinogenesis as indicated by observations that removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy)...
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    copper-dependent oxidation of the 2-hydroxy catechol of estradiol". Carcinogenesis. 15 (7): 1421–1427. doi:10.1093/carcin/15.7.1421. PMID 8033320. Gordon...
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    Human papillomavirus infection (category Carcinogenesis)
    and malignant transformation. HPV genome integration can also cause carcinogenesis by promoting genomic instability associated with alterations in DNA...
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    differentiation and apoptosis, suggesting possible involvement in carcinogenesis. Hormones are important agents in sex-related cancers, such as cancer...
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  • Monoclonal neoplasm (tumor): A single aberrant cell which has undergone carcinogenesis reproduces itself into a cancerous mass. Monoclonal plasma cell (also...
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  • A somatic mutation is a change in the DNA sequence of a somatic cell of a multicellular organism with dedicated reproductive cells; that is, any mutation...
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  • carcinogenicity in experimental animals and strong evidence that the carcinogenesis is mediated by a mechanism that also operates in humans. Exceptionally...
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    (September 2001). "Role of areca nut in betel quid-associated chemical carcinogenesis: current awareness and future perspectives". Oral Oncology. 37 (6):...
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    323. PMC 3169242. PMID 20697348. Barrett JC (1991). "Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis". In Brugge J, Curran T, Harlow E, McCormick F (eds.). Origins of Human...
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