Comparative morphologic and immunohistochemical investigation of spontaneously occurring thymomas in a colony of European hamsters

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 346-352

  Brandes, K ^a   Fend, F ^b   Monecke, S ^c   Teifke, J P ^d   Breuer, W ^a   Hermanns, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

European hamsters; Immunophenotyping; Morphology; Thymoma; WHO classification

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOMA; THYMUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; CRICETINAE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KERATINS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETUS CRICETUS;

EID: 4143134220     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.41-4-346     Document Type: Article

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