Differences in latency and inducibility of mouse skin melanomas depending on the age and anatomic site of the skin

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 630-632

  Silvers, Willys K ^a,b   Mintz, Beatrice ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LATENT PERIOD; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MITOSIS RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032519581     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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