Murine models of thymic lymphomas: premalignant scenarios amenable to prophylactic therapy

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 73, Issue 73, 1999, Pages 511-539

  Yefenof, Eitan ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IRRADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; THYMUS LYMPHOMA;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED AKR; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033063661     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)60792-0     Document Type: Article

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