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Human breast cancer cell line xenografts as models of breast cancer. The immunobiologies of recipient mice and the characteristics of several tumorigenic cell lines.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 1996
Clarke R
Abstract excerpt
The ability to maintain and study human tissues in an in vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. The most widely studied tissues have been xenografts of established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. Human breast tumor x...
Topics
- Animals
- Breast Neoplasms
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drug Resistance
- Female
- Gonadal Steroid Hormones
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Immunologic Surveillance
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, SCID
