TY - JOUR AU - Thalheimer, Andreas AU - Otto, Christoph AU - Bueter, Marco AU - Illert, Bertram AU - Gattenlohner, Stefan AU - Gasser, Martin AU - Meyer, Detlef AU - Fein, Martin AU - Germer, Christoph T. AU - Waaga-Gasser, Ana M. PY - 2009 DA - 2009/01/24 TI - The intraportal injection model: A practical animal model for hepatic metastases and tumor cell dissemination in human colon cancer JO - BMC Cancer SP - 29 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - The development of new therapeutic strategies for treatment of metastasized colorectal carcinoma requires biologically relevant and adequate animal models that generate both reproducible metastasis and the dissemination of tumor cells in the form of so-called minimal residual disease (MRD), an expression of the systemic character of neoplastic disease. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-9-29 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-9-29 ID - Thalheimer2009 ER -