Highly pigmented human melanoma variant which metastasizes widely in nude mice, including to skin and brain

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 1988, Pages 4897-4903

  Ishikawa, Makoto ^a   Fernandez, Bernard ^b   Kerbel, Robert S ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTOPSY; BRAIN METASTASIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PLOIDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 0023705753     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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