Emergent properties of tumor microenvironment in a real-life model of multicell tumor spheroids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Milotti, Edoardo ^a,b   Chignola, Roberto ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SPHEROID; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PATHOLOGY;

GLUCOSE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLUCOSE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 78649766028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013942     Document Type: Article

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