Molecular changes in human melanoma metastasis

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1225-1231

  Luca, M R ^a   Bar Eli, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Malignant melanoma; Metastasis; Transcription factor; Tumor suppressor gene

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P53; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031753290     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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