Pamidimukkala, Nidhi
Puts, Gemma S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7716-2636
Kathryn Leonard, M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-6803
Snyder, Devin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-7538
Dabernat, Sandrine
De Fabo, Edward C.
Noonan, Frances P.
Slominski, Andrzej http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-3995
Merlino, Glenn
Kaetzel, David M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-8970
Article History
Received: 7 January 2020
Revised: 9 July 2020
Accepted: 3 September 2020
First Online: 7 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Mice were maintained in the University of Maryland-Baltimore (UMB) animal facility in compliance with guidelines of the UMB Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. All mouse experiments were approved by the UMB-IACUC under protocols 0612013 and 0515008 (D. Kaetzel, P.I.).
: Not applicable.
: Data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and its supplementary files. Other relevant data and information such as breeding schemes, photographic images of primary and metastatic melanoma tissues, and assessments of melanoma growth in individual mice are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Grants through research grants CA83237, CA159871 and CA159871-S1 (D.M.K.), training grant T32 CA154274, education grant R25 GM055036 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and funds from the NIH Intramural Research Program (G.M.). The study was also supported by Merit Award 1I01BX004293-01A1 (A.S.) from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Foundation through research grant MSCRFI-1638 (D.M.K.).