Tumorsphere as an effective in vitro platform for screening anticancer stem cell drugs

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1215-1226

  Lee, Che Hsin ^a   Yu, Cheng Chia ^b,c   Wang, Bing Yen ^b,d,e   Chang, Wen Wei ^b,c  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; Drug screening; Targeting therapy; Tumorsphere

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL CULTURE; TUMORSPHERE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFECTS; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84957653781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6261     Document Type: Article

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