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Metastasis in an orthotopic murine model of melanoma is independent of RAS/RAF mutation.
Melanoma research - 1 Oct 2010
Rozenberg Gabriela I, Monahan Kimberly B, Torrice Chad, Bear James E, Sharpless Norman E
Abstract excerpt
Melanoma is the most lethal skin tumor in large part because of a propensity for early metastasis. Good models of this most clinically relevant feature of melanoma are lacking. Here, we report the development of an in-vivo model of metastasis that relies on orthotopic injection of green fluorescent protein-tagged lines in immunodeficient mice, serial intravital imaging of tumor progression, and quantification of...
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