A new patient-like metastatic model of human small-cell lung cancer constructed orthotopically with intact tissue via thoracotomy in nude mice - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1992 Sep-Oct;12(5):1403-6.

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A new patient-like metastatic model of human small-cell lung cancer constructed orthotopically with intact tissue via thoracotomy in nude mice

X Wang et al. Anticancer Res. 1992 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

A new nude-mouse metastasizing orthotopic transplant model of human small-cell carcinoma of the lung is described. Histologically-intact human small-cell lung tumors were transplanted to the left lung of nude mice via a thoracotomy procedure we have developed. The transplanted tumors grew extensively locally and metastasized to the opposite lung, lymph nodes and other clinically-relevant sites. The results described indicate the model developed could have clinical relevance and contrasts with models of small-cell carcinoma constructed with injections of cell suspensions which result in few or no metastases.

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