Solitary cancer cells as a possible source of tumour dormancy?

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 271-276

  Naumov, George N ^a,b   MacDonald, Ian C ^a   Chambers, Ann F ^a,b   Groom, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models; In vivo videomicroscopy; Isolated tumour cells; Metastasis; Tumour dormancy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0034860222     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.2001.0382     Document Type: Article

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