The effect of whole-body irradiation of nude mice on the tumor transplantability and control probability of a human soft tissue sarcoma xenograft

Radiation Research

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 337-342

  Huang, Feigen ^a,b   Taghian, Alphonse ^a   Allam, Ayman ^a   Freeman, Jill ^a   Duffy, Michael ^a   Suit, Herman D ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SARCOMA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 13344287069     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3578990     Document Type: Article

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