Three-dimensional (3D) tumor spheroid invasion assay

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 99, 2015, Pages

  Vinci, Maria ^a   Box, Carol ^a   Eccles, Suzanne A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D; Drug development; Extracellular matrix; High throughput; Imaging; Invasion; Issue 99; Medicine; Metastasis; Tumor spheroids

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN TUMOR; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MOUSE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR INVASION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84941248245     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52686     Document Type: Article

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