Selective uptake of para-boronophenylalanine increases in amelanotic melanoma cells transfected by the tyrosinase gene

Melanoma Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 297-302

  Hiratsuka, J ^a   Kondoh, H ^a   Tsuboi, T ^a   Yoshino, K ^a   Imajo, Y ^a   Mishima, Y ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amelanotic melanoma; BNCT; Gene transfer; Meta boronophenylalanine; Para boronophenylalanine

Indexed keywords

4 BORONOPHENYLALANINE; CELL PROTEIN; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033773976     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-200006000-00013     Document Type: Article

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