A simple, quantitative method using alginate gel to determine rat colonic tumor volume in vivo

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 128-134

  Irving, Amy A ^a   Young, Lindsay B ^a   Pleiman, Jennifer K ^a   Konrath, Michael J ^b   Marzella, Blake ^b   Nonte, Michael ^b   Cacciatore, Justin ^b   Ford, Madeline R ^a   Clipson, Linda ^a   Amos Landgraf, James M ^a,c   Dove, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CALCIUM SULFATE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL STONE; DRY WEIGHT; ERROR; FEMALE; FOGARTY CATHETER; GEL; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY DEVICE; MALE; MOLD DEVICE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYRINGE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT; ANIMAL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; PATHOLOGY;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SULFATE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; RATS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84897443206     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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