Melanoma growth and tumorigenicity in models of microgravity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1113-1116

  Taga, Masaki ^a   Yamauchi, Keiko ^b   Odle, Jesse ^b   Furian, Lucrezia ^c   Sundaresan, Alamelu ^d   Ramesh, Govindrajan T ^d   Pellis, Neal R ^e   Andrassy, Richard J ^b   Kulkarni, Anil D ^b,f  

^a Kitasato Junior College of Health and Hygienic Sciences   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Microgravity; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA B16; MICROGRAVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MELANINS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 33750453779     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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