Wildlife cancer: A conservation perspective

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 517-526

  McAloose, Denise ^a   Newton, Alisa L ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYC PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; WT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MODEL; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FACE TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; MARKER CHROMOSOME; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PAPILLOMA; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS VIRUS; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SEAL; SKIN PAPILLOMA; TURTLE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS ONCOGENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WART VIRUS; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SEA LIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; TURTLES; WHALES;

EID: 67649509592     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2665     Document Type: Review

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