Studying tumor extravasation using a microfluidic chip

Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 448-451

  Chaw, K C ^a,b   Manimaran, M ^c   Tay, Francis E H ^a,d   Leck, K J ^a   Swaminathan, S ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Extravasation; Metastasis; Microfluidic; Molecular bioengineering

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIPS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; BLOOD VESSELS; BUILDINGS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; COLLAGEN; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FOUNDATIONS; MICROCHANNELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICONES; TUMORS;

BASEMENT MEMBRANES; BLOOD CAPILLARIES; CANCER METASTASES; CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELL LININGS; EXTRAVASATION; HEPG2 CELLS; HUMAN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; METASTASIS; MICRO GAPS; MICROCOLONIES; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDIC; MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS; MOLECULAR BIOENGINEERING; PDMS MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; TUMOR CELLS; TYPE I COLLAGENS;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

EID: 56149097884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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