Advanced micromachining of concave microwells for long term on-chip culture of multicellular tumor spheroids

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8090-8097

  Liu, Tianqing ^a   Chien, Chia Chi ^a   Parkinson, Luke ^a   Thierry, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

drug screening; micromilling; microwells; multicellular tumor spheroids; pluronics; polydimethylsiloxane

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; MOLDS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONES;

DRUG SCREENING; MICRO MILLING; MICROWELLS; MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROIDS; PLURONICS;

MICROMACHINING;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE;

CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84902438572     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500367h     Document Type: Article

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