Visualizing portal vein metastatic trafficking to the liver with green fluorescent protein-expressing tumor cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3699-3702

  Wang, Jinwei ^a   Yang, Meng ^a   Hoffman, Robert M ^a  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Liver metastasis; Metastatic trafficking; Portal vein

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER CELL; CELL MIGRATION; LIVER; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL MOTION; COLON TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR EMBOLISM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 14944375952     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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