Multi-organ metastatic capability of Chinese hamster ovary cells revealed by green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 417-422

  Yang, Meng ^a,b,c   Chishima, Takashi ^c   Wang, Xiaoen ^a   Baranov, Eugene ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^c   Moossa, A R ^b   Hoffman, Robert M ^a,b  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein (GFP); Metastasis; Nude and SCID mice

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHO CELL; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMPLANTATION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033399029     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006665112147     Document Type: Article

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