Genetic and environmental melanoma models in fish

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 314-337

  Patton, E Elizabeth ^a   Mitchell, David L ^b,c   Nairn, Rodney S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Medaka; Melanoma; UV; Xiphophorus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2B; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MELANOMA RECEPTOR KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; REVIEW; SEX LINKAGE; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MODELS, GENETIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MUS; ORYZIINAE; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 77952561194     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00693.x     Document Type: Review

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