The third dimension bridges the gap between cell culture and live tissue

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 839-845

  Pampaloni, Francesco ^a   Reynaud, Emmanuel G ^a   Stelzer, Ernst H K ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL ADHESION; CELL ASSAY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34648834682     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2236     Document Type: Review

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