Clinically-Relevant Cutaneous Lesions by Nitrogen Mustard: Useful Biomarkers of Vesicants Skin Injury in SKH-1 Hairless and C57BL/6 Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tewari Singh, Neera ^a   Jain, Anil K ^a   Inturi, Swetha ^a   White, Carl W ^b   Agarwal, Rajesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORMETHINE; MUSTARD GAS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLISTER; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY SKIN; ERYTHEMA; HAIRLESS MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT DISORDER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN INJURY; SKIN TOXICITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; XEROSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; IRRITANTS; MECHLORETHAMINE; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84879484191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067557     Document Type: Article

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