Melanoma formation in xiphophorus: A model system for the role of receptor tyrosine kinases in tumorigenesis

BioEssays

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1017-1023

  Malitschek, Barbara ^a,b   Förnzler, Dorothee ^a,c   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; XMRK PROTEIN, XIPHOPHORUS;

ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOMA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 0029583051     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950171205     Document Type: Review

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