Loss of melanogenic response to DNA damage correlates with the metastatic phenotype of a melanoma cell line from Monodelphis domestica

Melanoma Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-112

  Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   VandeBerg, John L ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; LETTER; MARSUPIAL; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OPOSSUMS; PHENOTYPE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0037904537     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-200304000-00001     Document Type: Letter

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