Flow shear stress regulates endothelial barrier function and expression of angiogenic factors in a 3D microfluidic tumor vascular model

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 517-524

  Buchanan, Cara F ^a   Verbridge, Scott S ^a   Vlachos, Pavlos P ^b   Rylander, Marissa Nichole ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiopoietin; Collagen Hydrogel; Permeability; Tissue Engineering; Tumorigenesis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ANGIOGENIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; GELATINASE B; VASCULOTROPIN; ANGIOPOIETIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW RATE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROFLUIDICS; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEAR STRESS; TUMOR CELL; VASCULAR TUMOR; CELL LINE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANGIOPOIETINS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84921819007     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/19336918.2014.970001     Document Type: Article

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