Cancer invasion and micrometastasis visualized in live tissue by green fluorescent protein expression

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2042-2047

  Chishima, Takashi ^a,b   Miyagi, Yohei ^a   Wang, Xiaoen ^c   Yamaoka, Hiroyuki ^a,b   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 ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUORESCENCE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METHOTREXATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031005838     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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