Spheroid confrontation assay: A simple method to monitor the three-dimensional migration of different cell types in vitro

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-184

  Hattermann, Kirsten ^a   Held Feindt, Janka ^b   Mentlein, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell invasion; Cell labelling; Cell migration; Chemotaxis; Tumour

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN DIACETATE SUCCINIMIDYL ESTER; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; FLUORESCENT DYE; GROWTH FACTOR; METHYLCELLULOSE; SNARF 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ASSAY; CELL INVASION; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; SPHEROID CONFRONTATION ASSAY; THREE DIMENSIONAL CELL MIGRATION; TUMOR SPHEROID;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL TRACKING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 79955786504     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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