Transplantable melanomas in gerbils (meriones unguiculatus). II: Melanogenesis

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 356-364

  Plonka, Przemyslaw M ^b   Slominski, Andrzej T ^a   Pajak, Stanislawa ^b   Urbanska, Krystyna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

EPR; Gerbils; Melanin; Melanosomes; Pheomelanin; Transplantable melanomas; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; EUMELANIN; LEAD; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CANCER GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERBIL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0043065478     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0625.2002.120401.x     Document Type: Article

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