Zebrafish as a cancer model system

Cancer Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 229-231

  Amatruda, James F ^a   Shepard, Jennifer L ^a   Stern, Howard M ^a,b   Zon, Leonard I ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE REPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0036527963     PISSN: 15356108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1535-6108(02)00052-1     Document Type: Review

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