Engineering a 3D microfluidic culture platform for tumor-treating field application

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pavesi, Andrea ^a   Adriani, Giulia ^a   Tay, Andy ^b,c   Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi ^d   Yeap, Wei Hseun ^e   Wong, Siew Cheng ^e   Kamm, Roger D ^a,f  

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

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-549 CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTROTHERAPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; TUMOR CELL LINE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

A549 CELLS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84971268064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26584     Document Type: Article

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