Development and Preclinical Application of an Immunocompetent Transplant Model of Basal Breast Cancer with Lung, Liver and Brain Metastases.

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that is associated with a poor prognosis and for which no targeted therapies currently exist. In order to improve preclinical testing for TNBC that relies primarily on using human xenografts in immunodeficient mice, we ha...

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Main Authors: Olga Aprelikova, Christine C Tomlinson, Mark Hoenerhoff, Julie A Hixon, Scott K Durum, Ting-Hu Qiu, Siping He, Sandra Burkett, Zi-Yao Liu, Steven M Swanson, Jeffrey E Green
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4865188?pdf=render