Isolation of normal and cancer-associated fibroblasts from fresh tissues by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS)

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 71, 2013, Pages

  Sharon, Yoray ^a   Alon, Lina ^a   Glanz, Sarah ^a   Servais, Charlotte ^a   Erez, Neta ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal model; Bioengineering; Biomedical engineering; Breast cancer; Cancer; Cancer biology; Cancer associated fibroblasts; Cell; Cellular biology; Culture; FACS sorting; Fibroblast; Human; Issue 71; Medicine; Molecular biology; Mouse; Oncology; Pathology; PDGFRalpha; Skin carcinoma; Stroma; Tissue; Tumor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872849385     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4425     Document Type: Article

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