The expression of human high molecular weight melanomaassociated antigen in acral lentiginous melanoma

BioScience Trends

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 86-89

  Nishi, Hazuki ^a   Inoue, Yuji ^a   Kageshita, Toshiro ^a   Takata, Minoru ^b   Ihn, Hironobu ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM); High molecular weight melanoma associated antigen (HMW MAA)

Indexed keywords

HMW MAA; HMW-MAA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956898050     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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