Rod-cored vesicles in Large Granular Lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia cells of rats: Alterations induced following metastasis to the liver

Biomedical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-65

  Kaneda, Kenji ^a,b   Sayers, Thomas J ^a   Wiltrout, Theresa A ^a   Pilaro, Anne M ^a   Kojima, Akiko ^b   Nagashima, Kunio ^a   Gonda, Matthew A ^a   Ward, Jerrold M ^a   Reynolds, Craig W ^a   Ortaldo, John R ^a   Wiltrout, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL GRANULE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LEUKEMIA CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROD CORED VESICLE; SPLEEN;

EID: 0029874263     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.17.53     Document Type: Article

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