Advances in the formation, use and understanding of multi-cellular spheroids

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1347-1360

  Achilli, Toni Marie ^a   Meyer, Julia ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D cell culture; Self assembly; Spheroid aggregates; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; BLEBBISTATIN; CADHERIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CISPLATIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOCHALASIN; CYTOKERATIN; DOXORUBICIN; PACLITAXEL; PANCYTOKERATIN; PANNEXIN 1; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CANCER CELL; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL INTERACTION; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MAMMAL CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METASTASIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOXICITY TESTING; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866251102     PISSN: 14712598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14712598.2012.707181     Document Type: Review

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