"Immunodeficient mice" refers to mice that have a weakened or impaired immune system. This means that their bodies are less able to fight off infections and diseases compared to normal mice. Full definition
To improve our understanding and to build better and more translatable in vivo mouse tumor models, we are developing humanized mouse models consisting of the transplant of patient - derived tumor xenografts into immunodeficient mice reconstituted with human immune cells (isolated from the matching patient from the draining LNs or with allogenic PBMCs or LN cells). (science.institut-curie.org)
However, their initial finding demonstrated that progenitor derived from iPSCs generated using lentiviral gene transduction led to the high incidence of highly aggressive tumors in immunodeficient mice after transplantation under the kidney capsule. (stemcellsportal.com)
Implementation of experimental procedures in cancerology and availability of 7 specialized laboratories of biosafety level BSL2 and BSL3, equipped with imaging (bioluminescence / fluorescence), surgery rooms with volatile anaesthesia, means of phenotypic characterization of immunodeficient mouse models, sensitization of murine tumours to radiotherapy and vectorized internal radiotherapy (celphedia.eu)