Micro-CT imaging of tumor angiogenesis: Quantitative measures describing micromorphology and vascularization

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 431-441

  Ehling, Josef ^a   Theek, Benjamin ^a   Gremse, Felix ^a   Baetke, Sarah ^a   Möckel, Diana ^a   Maynard, Juliana ^b   Ricketts, Sally Ann ^b   Grüll, Holger ^c   Neeman, Michal ^d   Knuechel, Ruth ^a   Lederle, Wiltrud ^a   Kiessling, Fabian ^a   Lammers, Twan ^a,e,f  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD31 ANTIGEN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BLOOD VOLUME; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84892189058     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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