Spheroid culture as a tool for creating 3D complex tissues

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-115

  Fennema, Eelco ^a   Rivron, Nicolas ^a,b   Rouwkema, Jeroen ^a   van Blitterswijk, Clemens ^a   De Boer, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Biomimicry; High throughput screening; Spheroid

Indexed keywords

3-D CELL CULTURE; BIOMIMICRY; COMPLEX TISSUES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FABRICATION METHOD; FOREIGN MATERIALS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN-VITRO; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MICROFABRICATED; SPHEROID;

BIOMIMETICS; HISTOLOGY; SYSTEMS SCIENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

CELL CULTURE;

CELL ENGINEERING; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHEROID CULTURE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84872784433     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2012.12.003     Document Type: Review

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