Establishment of a metastatic model of human hepatocellular carcinoma in nude mice via orthotopic implantation of histologically intact tissues

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-243

  Sun, Fan X ^a   Tang, Zhao Y ^a   Liu, Kang D ^a   Ye, Sheng L ^a   Xue, Qiong ^a   Gao, Dong M ^a   Ma, Zeng C ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0029884258     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960410)66:2<239::AID-IJC17>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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