Prognostic relevance of the intrinsic growth deceleration of the first passage xenografts of human renal cell carcinomas

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2170-2172

  Bassukas, Ioannis D ^a,b,c   Hofmockel, Georg ^a   Tsatalpas, Panagiotis ^a   Eberle, Victor ^a   Maurer Schultze, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Fachklinik Hornheide   (Germany)

Author keywords

growth homeostasis; intrinsic growth deceleration; macroscopic growth pattern; malignancy; prognosis; renal cell carcinoma; xenografts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029981117     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961115)78:10<2170::AID-CNCR19>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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