In vivo opossum xenograft model for cancer research

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 6121-6124

  Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Hubbard, Gene B ^c   Pathak, Sen ^d   VandeBerg, John L ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Univ TX M D Anderson Cancer Ctr ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MELANOMA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; OPOSSUMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0141885139     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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