On the Social Behaviour of Cells

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Sommer, Andrei P ^a   Zhu, Dan ^a   Scharnweber, Tim ^b   Fecht, Hans Joerg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biomimetic triangle; cancer; diamond; Petri dish; social behaviour; stem cells

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELLS; CELL PERFORMANCE; CHEMOPREVENTION; CULTURE CONDITIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMONDS; PETRI DISH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; STEM CELL RESEARCH;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; BOTTLES; CELL CULTURE; CHEMOTHERAPY; DIAMONDS; EXPERIMENTS; POLYSTYRENES; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

STEM CELLS;

EID: 77950259039     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(09)60186-4     Document Type: Article

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