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The genetic components of susceptibility to breast cancer in the rat.
Progress in experimental tumor research - 1 Jan 1999
Shepel L A, Gould M N
Abstract excerpt
The rat is an extremely valuable model for studies of inherited susceptibility to breast cancer because the characteristics of rat mammary cancer and human breast cancer are so similar. There are now several rat models for studying sensitivity versus resistance, or cell autonomy versus non-cell-autonomy, for spontaneous and induced mammary cancers. It is known that the tumor-resistant Cop [20, 21] and WKy [8]...
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