Spheroid-based engineering of a human vasculature in mice

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 439-445

  Alajati, Abdullah ^a,b,c,f   Laib, Anna M ^a   Weber, Holger ^a,b,f   Boos, Anja M ^a,b   Bartol, Arne ^a   Ikenberg, Kristian ^b   Korff, Thomas ^b,f   Zentgraf, Hanswalter ^d   Obodozie, Cynthia ^b,f   Graeser, Ralph ^e   Christian, Sven ^a,b   Finkenzeller, Günter ^c   Stark, G Björn ^c   Héroult, Mélanie ^a,b   Augustin, Hellmut G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c TUMOR BIOLOGY CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^f PROQINASE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHEROID CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

MUS;

EID: 42949140307     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1198     Document Type: Article

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