Transplantable melanomas in gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). I. Origin, morphology and growth rate

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3 A, 1996, Pages 1203-1208

  Pajak, Stanislawa ^a   Cieszka, Krystyna ^a   Plonka, Przemyslaw ^a   Lukiewicz, Stanislaw ^a   Mihm, Martin ^a   Slominski, Andrzej ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gerbils; Malignancy; N ethyl N nitrosourea; Pigmentation; Transplantable melanomas; Tumor evolution

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; FEMALE; GERBIL; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL DIVISION; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029901062     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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