Vasculogenic mimicry and its hemodynamics of an inflammatory breast cancer xenograft model

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 136-139

  Shirakawa, Kazuo ^a,b   Kobayashi, Hisataka ^c   Sobajima, Jun ^a   Hashimoto, Daijo ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^b   Wakasugi, Hiro ^b  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Inflammatory breast cancer; Vasculogenic mimicry; Xenograft model

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DUCT; CANCER CELL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MACROMOLECULE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0344080490     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr585     Document Type: Review

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