C-kit Expression in Canine Mucosal Melanomas

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 760-765

  Newman, Shelley J ^a   Jankovsky, J M ^a   Rohrbach, B W ^b   LeBlanc, A K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

c kit; CD117; dogs; melanoma; tyrosine kinase receptor

Indexed keywords

MELAN A; PROTEIN S 100; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MART-1 ANTIGEN; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84866417490     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15442217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0300985811414032     Document Type: Article

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