Patent ID: 6761876
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: A01K,A61K,A61P,C12Q,G01N

Abstract:
A method of analyzing the effects of an agent on a property of cancer cells, comprising:(a) introducing one or more heterologous cancer cells into a fish embryo that has not yet developed an immune system that would subject the cancer cells to immune rejection; (b) administering the agent to the fish embryo; and (c) analyzing a property of the heterologous cancer cells to determine whether the property is responsive to administration of the agent by comparing the property of the heterologous cancer cells in the fish embryo to which the agent was administered in step (b) with the property of heterologous cancer cells in a control fish embryo to which the agent has not been administered, a change in the property between the fish embryo and control fish embryo being an indication that the agent has an effect on the property.