Visualization of the metastatic process by green fluorescent protein expression

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4 A, 1997, Pages 2377-2384

  Chishima, Takashi ^a,b   Miyagi, Yohei ^a   Wang, Xiaoen ^c   Tan, Yuying ^c   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Moossa, A R ^b   Hoffman, Robert M ^b,c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Anti Cancer Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental hematogenous metastasis; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); Metastatic process; Surgical orthotopic implantation (SOI)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG HILUS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030746478     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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