An In Vitro System to Study Tumor Dormancy and the Switch to Metastatic Growth
Title:
An In Vitro System to Study Tumor Dormancy and the Switch to Metastatic Growth
Author:
Barkan, Dalit
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA MyJoVE Corp 2016
Physical Description:
online resource (554 seconds)
Series:
Medicine
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Abstract:
A modified 3-D in vitro system is presented in which growth characteristics of several tumor cell lines in reconstituted basement membrane correlate with the dormant or proliferative behavior of the tumor cells at a metastatic secondary site in vivo.
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For undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
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Electronic Access:
https://www.jove.com/t/2914