Treatment with topical khellin in combination with ultraviolet A or solar‐simulated radiation is carcinogenic to lightly pigmented hairless mice

Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 1995, Pages 204-208

  Bech Thomsen N ^a   Wulf, H C ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

hairless mice; khellin; photocarcinogenesis; solar radiation; UVA

Indexed keywords

KHELLIN; METHOXSALEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPIGMENTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; COCARCINOGENESIS; FEMALE; KHELLIN; METHOXSALEN; MICE; MICE, INBRED HRS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0029552817     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: 16000781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.1995.tb00170.x     Document Type: Article

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