Cell culture as spheroids: An approach to multicellular resistance

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6 A, 1998, Pages 4147-4158

  Desoize, Bernard ^a   Gimonet, Delphine ^a   Jardiller, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Multicellular resistance; Multidrug resistance (MDR); P glycoprotein; Spheroids

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL CYCLE; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; METASTASIS; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR RESISTANCE; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL HYPOXIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; NECROSIS; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032409190     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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