Probing the invasiveness of prostate cancer cells in a 3D microfabricated landscape

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6853-6856

  Liu, Liyu ^a,b   Sun, Bo ^b   Pedersen, Jonas N ^a,b   Yong, Koh Meng Aw ^c   Getzenberg, Robert H ^c   Stone, Howard A ^b   Austin, Robert H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological physics; Microfabrication; Oncology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CELL SPREADING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LANDSCAPE; METASTASIS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955550386     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102808108     Document Type: Article

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