Confocal laser scanning analysis of an equine oral mast cell tumor with atypical expression of tyrosine kinase receptor C-KIT

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 225-228

  Seeliger, Frank ^a,c   Hess O ^b   Probsting M ^a   Kleinschmidt, S ^a   Woehrmann, T ^c   Germann, P G ^c   Baumgartner W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Clinic for Equine Medicine   (Germany)

^c ALTANA PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Equine; KIT; Mast cell tumor; Tongue

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MASTOCYTOMA; PATHOLOGY; TONGUE TUMOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MASTOCYTOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 33947175147     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15442217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.44-2-225     Document Type: Article

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