Video microscopy of tumor metastasis: Using the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene as a cancer-cell-labeling system

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-55

  Kan, Zuxing ^a   Liu, Ta Jen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aequorea victoria; Cancer; Green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene; Metastasis; Video microscopy

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; LIVER METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PILOT PROJECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0033055607     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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