Fetal cell microchimerism and cancer: A nexus of reproduction, immunology, and tumor biology

Cancer Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-12

  Kallenbach, Lisa R ^a   Johnson, Kirby L ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CHIMERA; CIRCULATION; FETUS CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; TISSUE REPAIR; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CHIMERISM; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 78651401351     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0618     Document Type: Review

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