Multicellular tumor spheroids grown from pancreatic carcinoma cell lines: Use as an orthotopic xenograft in athymic nude mice

Pancreas

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-248

  McLeod, Elizabeth J ^a   Beischer, Andrew D ^a   Hill, John S ^a,b   Kaye, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Athymic nude mice; Multicellular tumor spheroids; Orthotopic xenograft; Pancreatic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SPHEROID; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0030934594     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199704000-00004     Document Type: Article

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