Improved methods to generate spheroid cultures from tumor cells, tumor cells & fibroblasts or tumor-fragments: microenvironment, microvesicles and MiRNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Lao, Zheng ^a,b   Kelly, Catherine J ^c   Yang, Xiang Yang ^a   Jenkins, W Timothy ^a   Toorens, Erik ^a   Ganguly, Tapan ^a   Evans, Sydney M ^a   Koch, Cameron J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; MICRORNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL INTERACTION; COLONY FORMING CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GLIOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; NECK CANCER; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SPHEROID; GENETICS; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BIOMARKERS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84942033507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133895     Document Type: Article

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