Loss of a reporter gene for green fluorescent protein during tumor progression suggests the recruitment of host cells in rats with experimentally induced colon cancer

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1205-1211

  García Olmo, Dolores C ^a   Samos, Julia ^a   Picazo, María G ^a   Fernández Miguel, Gemma ^b   Taboso, Inmaculada ^a   García Olmo, Damián ^c  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^b Cellerix SA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Green fluorescent protein; Immunocompetent rat; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; K RAS PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPORTER GENE; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLON TUMOR; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 54449084421     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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