Ultraviolet B but not ultraviolet A radiation initiates melanoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6372-6376

  De Fabo, Edward C ^a   Noonan, Frances P ^a   Fears, Thomas ^b   Merlino, Glenn ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUN EXPOSURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 4644233539     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-1454     Document Type: Article

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