Characterization of human glioblastoma xenograft growth in athymic mice

In Vivo

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-374

  Ozawa, Tomoko ^a   Wang, Jingli ^a   Hu, Lily J ^a   Lamborn, Kathleen R ^a   Bollen, Andrew W ^a   Deen, Dennis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Athymic mice; Glioblastoma; SF 767 brain tumor cells; Xenograft model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TUMOR GROWTH; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0031824220     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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