Increased plasticity of the stiffness of melanoma cells correlates with their acquisition of metastatic properties

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-148

  Weder, Gilles ^a   Hendriks Balk, Mariëlle C ^b   Smajda, Rita ^a   Rimoldi, Donata ^c   Liley, Martha ^a   Heinzelmann, Harry ^a   Meister, André ^a   Mariotti, Agnese ^b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; Cell stiffness; Malignant progression; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER PROGRESSION; CELL STIFFNESS; MALIGNANT PROGRESSION; MELANOMA; METASTATIC CARCINOMA; METASTATIC MELANOMA; METASTATIC TUMORS; VERTICAL GROWTH;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; ONCOLOGY; PLASTICITY; STIFFNESS; TUMORS;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; METASTATIC MELANOMA; PLASTICITY; RIGIDITY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; CELL STIFFNESS; MALIGNANT PROGRESSION; MELANOMA;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84891039329     PISSN: 15499634     EISSN: 15499642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2013.07.007     Document Type: Article

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