Enhancing Effect of Thyroxine on Tumor Growth and Metastases in Syngeneic Mouse Tumor Systems

Cancer Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1979, Pages 3515-3518

  Kumar, Manjula S ^a   Chiang, Theresa ^a   Deodhar, Sharad D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METASTASIS; MOUSE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ANIMAL; BENZANTHRACENES; FEMALE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0018647862     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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