Intravital imaging of cell movement in tumours

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 921-930

  Condeelis, John ^a   Segall, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER INVASION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL TYPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAVITAL IMAGING; LEUKOCYTE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0345059766     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1231     Document Type: Review

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