Feasibility and limits of an orthotopic human colon cancer model in nude mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-109

  Thalheimer, Andreas ^a   Illert, Bertram ^a   Bueter, Marco ^a   Gattenlohner, Stefan ^a   Stehle, Dominik ^a   Gasser, Martin ^a   Thiede, Arnulf ^a   Waaga Gasser, Ana Maria ^a   Meyer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATIN-20; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33646487760     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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