Nitroxyl radicals and malignant pigment melanoma

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-388

  Dimitrov Raikov, Zahari ^a   Atanasov, Atanas Todorov ^a   Todorova Raikova, Elena ^a  

^a TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE; PEROXYNITRITE; RADICAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIAZENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037370818     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00407-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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