B16LS9 melanoma cells spread to the liver from the murine ocular posterior compartment (PC)

Current Eye Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-129

  Diaz, Carlos E ^a   Rusciano, Dario ^b   Dithmar, Stefan ^a   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Choroid; Ciliary body; Liver; Melanoma; Metastasis; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA B16; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UVEA MELANOMA;

EID: 0033056328     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.18.2.125.5380     Document Type: Article

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