Engineering confining microenvironment for studying cancer metastasis

Summary: The physical microenvironment of cells plays a fundamental role in regulating cellular behavior and cell fate, especially in the context of cancer metastasis. For example, capillary deformation can destroy arrested circulating tumor cells while the dense extracellular matrix can form a phys...

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Main Authors: Kuan Jiang, Lanfeng Liang, Chwee Teck Lim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-02-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221000663