Influence of organ microenvironment on pigmentation of a metastatic murine melanoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 2258-2264

  Price, Janet E ^a   Tarin, David ^b   Fidler, Isaiah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; CYCLIC AMP; MELANINS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PIGMENTATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023935790     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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