Frequent Harderian gland adenocarcinomas in inbred white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 382-386

  Parnell, Pamela G ^a   Crossland, Janet P ^b   Beattie, Robert M ^c   Dewey, Michael J ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; FIBROSARCOMA; HARDER GLAND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; METASTASIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MITOSIS INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; EYE NEOPLASMS; HARDERIAN GLAND; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 33645987934     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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