Four-dimensional analysis of human brain tumor spheroid invasion into fetal rat brain aggregates using confocal scanning laser microscopy

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Khoshyomn, Sami ^a   Penar, Paul L ^a   McBride, Whitney J ^b   Taatjes, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Confocal microscopy; Glioblastoma; Invasion; Spheroids

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; 3,3' DIOCTADECYLOXACARBOCYANINE; CARBOCYANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONITORING; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE PREPARATION; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL AGGREGATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FETUS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 0031883357     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005758626348     Document Type: Article

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