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Chick Heart Invasion Assay for Testing the Invasiveness of Cancer Cells and the Activity of Potentially Anti-invasive Compounds
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Chick Heart Invasion Assay for Testing the Invasiveness of Cancer Cells and the Activity of Potentially Anti-invasive Compounds
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10:16 min

June 06, 2015

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 02:05Pre-cultured Heart Fragment (PHF) Preparation
  • 05:16Spheroidal Test Cell Aggregate Preparation, Confrontation and Histology
  • 08:07Results: Toxicity and Growth Assessment of the Confronting Culture
  • 09:17Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

Here, we present a protocol to study the invasion of tumor cells into living normal tissue fragments in three dimensions. This organ culture technique is mainly applied to test potentially anti-invasive drugs in vitro.

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