Tumor-stroma: In vivo assays and intravital imaging to study cell migration and metastasis

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 95-102

  Zhou, Zhen Ni ^a   Boimel, Pamela J ^a   Segall, Jeffrey E ^a,b  

^a Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology ^*  (United States)

^b Gruss Lipper Center for Biophotonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER INVASION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 82455199249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17406757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2011.07.003     Document Type: Review

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