Beware of contaminating mouse cells in human xenografts from nude mice

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3 A, 2000, Pages 1635-1639

  Yang, Jason ^a,b   Liu, Annie ^a,b   Dougherty, Carter ^a   Chen, Xiaoyan ^a   Guzman, Raphael ^a   Nandi, Satyabrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cancer Research Fund of Contra Costa   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Human xenografts; Nude mice; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033854186     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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