1985 Volume 76 Issue 6 Pages 425-428
The presence of activated oncogenes in several rat hepatocellular carcinomas induced by 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4, 5-f]quinoline (IQ) was examined by NIH 3T3 cell transfection assay and Southern blot analysis. In one tumor, IQ4, rat H-ras-1 and another oncogene that did not belong to the ras family were found to be activated.