Human breast cancer cell metastasis to long bone and soft organs of nude mice: A quantitative assay

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-182

  Sung, V ^b   Cattell, D A ^a   Bueno, J M ^a   Murray, A ^a   Zwiebelt, J A ^b   Aaron, A D ^c   Thompson, E W ^a,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bone metastasis; human breast cancer; Lac Z; quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 0030992620     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018409028662     Document Type: Article

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