Androgen-Dependent Atypical Fibromas Spontaneously Arising in the Skin of Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 527-531

  Baba, Yasuko ^a   Takahashi, Kimimasa ^a   Nakamura, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; VIMENTIN;

ABDOMEN; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DERMIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN; STROMA; THORAX; TUMOR; TUMOR CELL;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE III; CRICETINAE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; FEMALE; FIBROMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHODOPUS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RODENT DISEASES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0242637538     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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