Lack of detection of feline leukemia and feline sarcoma viruses in diffuse iris melanomas of cats by immunohistochemistry and polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 340-343

  Cullen, Cheryl L ^a,b   Haines, Deborah M ^a   Jackson, Marion L ^a   Grahn, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS TUMOR; MELANOMA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS NEOPLASMS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; MELANOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA VIRUSES, FELINE;

EID: 0036654380     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063870201400414     Document Type: Article

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