A novel minimally invasive technique to create a rabbit VX2 lung tumor model for nano-sized image contrast and interventional studies.

<h4>Background</h4>The rabbit VX2 lung cancer model is a large animal model useful for preclinical lung cancer imaging and interventional studies. However, previously reported models had issues in terms of invasiveness of tumor inoculation, control of tumor aggressiveness and incidence o...

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Main Authors: Takashi Anayama, Takahiro Nakajima, Michael Dunne, Jinzi Zheng, Christine Allen, Brandon Driscoll, Douglass Vines, Shaf Keshavjee, David Jaffray, Kazuhiro Yasufuku
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23840673/?tool=EBI