Ultraviolet radiation A-induced precursors of cutaneous melanoma in Monodelphis domestica

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 3682-3684

  Ley, Ronald D ^a  

^a LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE DELETION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN TUMOR; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ANIMALS; HYPERPLASIA; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OPOSSUMS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030770721     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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