c-Kit-Targeting Immunotherapy for Hereditary Melanoma in a Mouse Model

Cancer Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 801-806

  Kato, Masashi ^a,c   Takeda, Kozue ^a   Kawamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tsuzuki, Toyonori ^a   Hossain, Khaled ^a   Tamakoshi, Akiko ^a   Kunisada, Takahiro ^b   Kambayashi, Yasuhiro ^c   Ogino, Keiki ^c   Suzuki, Haruhiko ^a   Takahashi, Masahide ^a   Nakashima, Izumi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE FREQUENCY; HAIR FOLLICLE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE RET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TARGET CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

EID: 10744232280     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-2532     Document Type: Article

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