Organotypic spheroid cultures to study tumor-stroma interaction during cancer development

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 113-119

  Dolznig, Helmut ^a   Walzl, Angelika ^a   Kramer, Nina ^a   Rosner, Margit ^a   Garin Chesa, Pilar ^b   Hengstschläger, Markus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; SPHEROID CELL; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 82455162375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17406757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2011.06.003     Document Type: Review

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