The Monodelphis melanoma model: Initial report on large ultraviolet a exposures of suckling young

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 743-746

  Robinson, E S ^a   Hill Jr , R H ^b   Kripke, M L ^c   Setlow, R B ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUCKLING; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OPOSSUMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0034212104     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)071<0743:TMMMIR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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