Silencing KRAS overexpression in arsenic-transformed prostate epithelial and stem cells partially mitigates malignant phenotype.

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Published in Toxicol Sci on September 30, 2014

Authors

Ntube N O Ngalame1, Erik J Tokar1, Rachel J Person1, Michael P Waalkes2

Author Affiliations

1: Inorganic Toxicology Group, National Toxicology Program Laboratory, Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
2: Inorganic Toxicology Group, National Toxicology Program Laboratory, Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 waalkes@niehs.nih.gov.

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