3D versus 2D cell culture. Implications for electron microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 649-670

  Hess, Michael W ^a   Pfaller, Kristian ^a   Ebner, Hannes L ^a   Beer, Beate ^a   Hekl, Daniel ^a   Seppi, Thomas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; BOOK; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CRYOPRESERVATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 77957004426     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96027-5     Document Type: Book

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