Probing the role of multicellular organization in three-dimensional microenvironments

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 369-375

  Albrecht, Dirk R ^a,b   Underhill, Gregory H ^a,b   Wassermann, Travis B ^a   Sah, Robert L ^a   Bhatia, Sangeeta N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL INTERACTION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COW; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HYDROGEL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROCYTES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HYDROGELS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; REGENERATION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 33646032122     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth873     Document Type: Article

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