Breast cancer models
Example: MX-1-GFP and –RFP breast carcinoma growing on mammary fat pads of SCID mouse. Whole-body image.
Features
  • Orthotopic transplantation of intact tissue
  • Metastatic sites
  1. lymph nodes
  2. liver
  3. lung
  4. skeleton
  • Estrogen-dependent
  • Estrogen-independent
  • Green Fluorescent Protein expression
  • Red Fluorescent Protein expression

 

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  4. John, C.M., Leffler, H., Kahl-Knutsson, B., Svensson, I., Jarvis, G.A. Truncated Galectin-3 Inhibits Tumor Growth and Metastasis in Orthotopic Nude Mouse Model of Human Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Res. 9, 3808-3814, 2003 [PDF]
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