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Use of histoculture and green fluorescent protein to visualize tumor cell host interaction

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  1. Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

    Takashi Chishima, Meng Yang & Hiroshi Shimada

  2. Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

    Yohei Miyagi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California, 200 W. Arbor Drive, 92103-8220, San Diego, California

    Meng Yang, A. R. Moossa & Robert M. Hoffman

  4. AntiCancer, Inc., 7917 Ostrow Street, 92111, San Diego, California

    Takashi Chishima, Lingna Li, Yuying Tan, Eugene Baranov & Robert M. Hoffman

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Chishima, T., Miyagi, Y., Li, L. et al. Use of histoculture and green fluorescent protein to visualize tumor cell host interaction. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 33, 745–747 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-997-0151-x

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