Cell proliferation and expression of connexins differ in melanotic and amelanotic canine oral melanomas

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-38

  Teixeira, Tarso Felipe ^a   Gentile, Luciana Boffoni ^a   Da Silva, Tereza Cristina ^a   Mennecier, Gregory ^a   Chaible, Lucas Martins ^a   Cogliati, Bruno ^a   Roman, Marco Antonio Leon ^a   Gioso, Marco Antonio ^a   Dagli, Maria Lucia Zaidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amelanotic melanomas; Connexins 26 and 43; Dogs; Melanotic melanomas; PCNA

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLINE; MELAN A; MESSENGER RNA;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CX26 GENE; CX43 GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOTIC MELANOMA; MITOSIS; MOUTH TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896828219     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: 15737446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11259-013-9580-z     Document Type: Article

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