Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 65-81

  Sontheimer Phelps, Alexandra ^a,b   Hassell, Bryan A ^a,c,e   Ingber, Donald E ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Nirrin Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAVASATION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MICROFLUIDICS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PRECISION MEDICINE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85060155472     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41568-018-0104-6     Document Type: Review

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