The in-vitro spheroid culture induces a more highly differentiated but tumorigenic population from melanoma cell lines

Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 254-263

  Mo, Jing ^a   Sun, Baocun ^a   Zhao, Xiulan ^a   Gu, Qiang ^a   Dong, Xueyi ^a   Liu, Zhiyong ^a   Ma, Yuemei ^a   Zhao, Nan ^a   Liu, Yanrong ^a   Chi, Jiadong ^a   Sun, Ran ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cancer stem cell; melanoma; sphere; tumorigenicity

Indexed keywords

ADAPALENE; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADHERENT CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHEROID CELL; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879914586     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: 14735636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e32836314e3     Document Type: Article

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