Spontaneous Uterine Leiomyosarcoma in a Rhesus Macaque

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-49

  Cook, Anthony L ^a   Rogers, Tiffani D ^a   Sowers, Marsha ^a  

^a BIOQUAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MACACA; METABOLISM; MONKEY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPINDLE CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; UTERUS CANCER; UTERUS MYOMA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MACACA MULATTA; MONKEY DISEASES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 1642494752     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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