Intravital imaging of anti-tumor immune response and the tumor microenvironment

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-317

  Zal, Tomasz ^a   Chodaczek, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunotherapy; Intravital imaging; Multiphoton microscopy; Regulatory FoxP3+ T cells; TIL; Tumor microenvironment; Tumor associated macrophages

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL MOTILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTRAVITAL IMAGING; INTRAVITAL VIDEO MICROSCOPY; LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; TIME LAPSE MICROSCOPY; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; FLUORESCENT DYES; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77958105047     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-010-0217-9     Document Type: Review

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