Robotic production of cancer cell spheroids with an aqueous two-phase system for drug testing

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 98, 2015, Pages

  Ham, Stephanie Lemmo ^a   Atefi, Ehsan ^a   Fyffe, Darcy ^a   Tavana, Hossein ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

3D culture; Bioengineering; Cancer cell spheroid; Co Culture; Drug screening; High throughput; Issue 98; Robotic

Indexed keywords

COCULTURE; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84941255023     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52754     Document Type: Article

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