title: Dormant metastases--studies in experimental animals.
abstract: Several experimental systems related to tumour cell dormancy are outlined together with some of the possible mechanisms by which the host might maintain tumour foci in such a quiescent state.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D051381:Rats; D012513:Sarcoma, Experimental / Q000473:pathology