In-vivo xenograft murine human uveal melanoma model develops hepatic micrometastases

Melanoma Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Yang, Hua ^a   Fang, Guofu ^a   Huang, Xinping ^a   Yu, Jie ^a   Hsieh, Chia Ling ^a   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Hepatic metastasis; Micrometastasis; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIVER METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UVEA MELANOMA; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40849142160     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e3282f628df     Document Type: Article

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