Hanging drop cultures of human testis and testis cancer samples: A model used to investigate activin treatment effects in a preserved niche

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2604-2614

  Jorgensen A ^a   Young, J ^b   Nielsen, J E ^a   Joensen, U N ^a   Toft, B G ^a   Rajpert De Meyts, E ^a   Loveland, K L ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; FOLLISTATIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CANCER; TISSUE CULTURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACTIVINS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA REPLICATION; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84900525841     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.160     Document Type: Article

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