The cyan fluorescent protein nude mouse as a host for multicolor-coded imaging models of primary and metastatic tumor microenvironments

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-38

  Suetsugu, Atsushi ^a,b,c   Hassanein, Mohamed K ^a,b   Reynoso, Jose ^a   Osawa, Yosuke ^c   Nagaki, Masahito ^c   Moriwaki, Hisataka ^c   Saji, Shigetoyo ^c   Bouvet, Michael ^b   Hoffman, Robert M ^a,b  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer associated fibroblasts; CFP; Color coded imaging; Dual color cancer cells; GFP; HCT 116 human colon cancer cells; Mouse mammary tumor cells; RFP; Transgenic nude mice; Tumor microenviroment (TME)

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CELL STRAIN HCT116; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER PARENCHYMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPLEEN TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84855650429     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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