Development of an Animal Brain Tumor Model and Its Response to Therapy with l, 3-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-l-nitrosourea

Cancer Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1973, Pages 976-986

  Barker, Marvin ^b   Hoshino, Takao ^b   Wilson, Charles B ^b   Nielsen, Surl L ^b   Downie, Robert ^b   Eliason, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; TRITIUM;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GLIOMA; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; TIME;

ANIMAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIOMA; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NITROSOUREA COMPOUNDS; RATS; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRITIUM;

EID: 0015618592     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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