Using microfluidics to investigate tumor cell extravasation and T-cell immunotherapies

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn 2015-November, Issue , 2015, Pages 1853-1856

  Pavesi, A ^a   Tan, A T ^b   Chen, M B ^c   Adriani, G ^a   Bertoletti, A ^b   Kamm, R D ^a,c  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVICES; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROFLUIDICS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84953205321     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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