Cells on chips

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7101, 2006, Pages 403-411

  El Ali, Jamil ^a   Sorger, Peter K ^b   Jensen, Klavs F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FLUIDICS; FLUIDS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SOLUBILITY; SURFACES; TISSUE;

CLINICAL SETTINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PLATFORMS;

CELLS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL GROWTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICE; DRUG RESEARCH; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUID TRANSPORT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR; STIMULUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

CELL EXTRACT;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL EXTRACTS; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33747116681     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05063     Document Type: Review

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