A sparing procedure to clear the mouse mammary fat pad of epithelial components for transplantation analysis

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-110

  Brill, B ^a   Boecher, N ^a   Groner, B ^a   Shemanko, C S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR TUMOR BIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epithelial cells; Fat pad; Mouse mammary gland; Stem cell assay; Transplantation analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIMORDIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

MUS;

EID: 42249115208     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2007.06003e     Document Type: Article

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