Growth and metastasis of surgical specimens of human breast carcinomas in SCID mice

Cancer Journal from Scientific American

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 291-300

  Sakakibara, Takashi ^a   Xu, Yan ^a   Bumpers, Harvey L ^b   Chen, Fang An ^a   Bankert, Richard B ^a   Arredondo, Mark A ^a   Edge, Stephen B ^a   Repasky, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Gonadal fat pad; Human breast carcinoma; Metastatic breast cancer; SCID mice; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICE; MICE, SCID; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0003348945     PISSN: 10814442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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