Expression of fibrogenic cytokines in desmoplastic malignant melanoma

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 192-197

  Kubo, M ^a   Kikuchi, K ^b   Nashiro, K ^b   Kakinuma, T ^a   Hayashi, N ^a   Nanko, H ^c   Tamaki, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031867552     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1998.02354.x     Document Type: Article

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