Ultrastructural evidence for divergent and alternating differentiations in spindle cell sarcoma xenografts

Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-195

  Schmidt, U ^a   Stuben G ^a   Stuschke, M ^a   Donhuijsen, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Braunschweig Central Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Sarcoma; Ultrastructure; Xenotransplant

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DESMIN; NERVE PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DESMIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0031110784     PISSN: 11229497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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