Tumor cell dissemination in a human colon cancer animal model: Orthotopic implantation or intraportal injection?

European Surgical Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-200

  Thalheimer, Andreas ^a   Otto, C ^a   Bueter, M ^a   Illert, B ^a   Gattenlohner, S ^a   Gasser, M ^a   Fein, M ^a   Germer, C T ^a   Waaga Gasser, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Colorectal cancer; Intraportal injection model; Minimal residual disease; Orthotopic implantation model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KERATIN-20; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PORTAL VEIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 61449153885     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000205825     Document Type: Article

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