Cell Stiffness Is a Biomarker of the Metastatic Potential of Ovarian Cancer Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Wenwei ^a   Mezencev, Roman ^b   Kim, Byungkyu ^b   Wang, Lijuan ^b   McDonald, John ^b   Sulchek, Todd ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CANCER CELL; CELL DEFORMABILITY; CELL STIFFNESS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; OVARY CANCER; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION;

ACTINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867117776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046609     Document Type: Article

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