Orthotopic human choroidal melanoma xenografts in nude rats with aggressive and nonaggressive PAS staining patterns

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-16

  Braun, Rod D ^a   Abbas, Asad ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUDE RAT; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CHOROID; CHOROID TUMOR; DISEASE MODEL; MELANOMA; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PATHOLOGY; STAINING;

ANIMALS; CHOROID; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; RATS; RATS, NUDE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 33644838284     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0882     Document Type: Article

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