Engineering approaches for investigating tumor angiogenesis: Exploiting the role of the extracellular matrix

Cancer Research

Volumn 72, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6089-6096

  Hielscher, Abigail C ^a   Gerecht, Sharon ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ;

ANGIOGENESIS; BIOENGINEERING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG TUMOR; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84870315506     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-2773     Document Type: Review

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