Bioprinting-Based High-Throughput Fabrication of Three-Dimensional MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cellular Spheroids

Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 269-274

  Ling, Kai ^a   Huang, Guoyou ^a   Liu, Juncong ^a   Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Ma, Yufei ^a   Lu, Tianjian ^a   Xu, Feng ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bioprinting; concave wells; hydrogels; MCF 7 cellular spheroids; tissue on a chip

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FABRICATION; HYDROGELS; MOLDING; POLLUTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; THROUGHPUT; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOPRINTING; DRUG SCREENING; FACILE METHOD; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HUMAN BREAST CANCER; MCF-7 CELLULAR SPHEROIDS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85009774234     PISSN: 20958099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15302/J-ENG-2015062     Document Type: Article

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