On-chip human microvasculature assay for visualization and quantification of tumor cell extravasation dynamics

Nature Protocols

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 865-880

  Chen, Michelle B ^a   Whisler, Jordan A ^a   Fröse, Julia ^b,c,d   Yu, Cathy ^a   Shin, Yoojin ^a   Kamm, Roger D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LAB ON A CHIP; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROMETASTASIS; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; STAINING; TUMOR CELL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CELL MOTION; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROVESSELS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 85019663967     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2017.018     Document Type: Article

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