Tuning liver stiffness against tumours: An in vitro study using entrapped cells in tumour-like microcapsules

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-121

  Leal Egaña, Aldo ^a   Fritsch, Anatol ^a   Heidebrecht, Felicia ^a   Díaz Cuenca, Aránzazu ^b,c   Nowicki, Marcin ^a   Bader, Augustinus ^a   Käs, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fibrotic liver; Mechanical stress; Metastatic inefficiency; Pore collapse; Primary tumours; Tumour like microcapsules

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELLS; CELL MATRIX; CELL MORTALITY; DECAY STAGES; ECM PROTEINS; HEPATOCARCINOMA; HEPATOCELLULAR; IN-VITRO; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; LIVER TISSUE; MASS TRANSFER LIMITATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METALLOPROTEINASES; METASTATIC INEFFICIENCY; MICROCAPSULES; PORE COLLAPSE;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; ELASTICITY; MECHANISMS; PATHOLOGY; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRESSES; TUMORS;

CELLS;

ALGINIC ACID; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL VIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMOBILIZED CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FIBROSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROCAPSULE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGINATES; CAPSULES; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIBROSIS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEP G2 CELLS; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857130786     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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