Description and characterization of a chamber for viewing and quantifying cancer cell chemotaxis

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-34

  Soon, Lilian ^a,b   Mouneimne, Ghassan ^a   Segall, Jeffrey ^a   Wyckoff, Jeffrey ^a   Condeelis, John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer cell chemotaxis assay; Directional migration; Soon chamber

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRAIN MTLN3; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; IMAGING; METASTASIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOON CHAMBER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTAXIS; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 24344455528     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20082     Document Type: Article

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