Ultrasound imaging-guided intracardiac injection to develop a mouse model of breast cancer brain metastases followed by longitudinal MRI

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 85, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Heling ^a   Zhao, Dawen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer brain metastasis; Intracardiac injection; Issue 85; MDA MB231 Br GFP cells; Medicine; MRI; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940272914     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51146     Document Type: Article

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