Optimizing a 3D culture system to study the interaction between epithelial breast cancer and its surrounding fibroblasts

Journal of Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 458-466

  Li, Liyuan ^a   Lu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D co culture model; Breast cancer cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; COCULTURE; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL COCULTURE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SPHEROID;

EID: 84857651643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18379664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/jca.2.458     Document Type: Article

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