Multicellular self-assembled spheroidal model of the blood brain barrier

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Urich, Eduard ^a   Patsch, Christoph ^a   Aigner, Stefan ^a   Graf, Martin ^a   Iacone, Roberto ^a   Freskgård, Per Ola ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PERICYTE;

ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84875763552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01500     Document Type: Article

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