A study on developing a new transendothelial migration model to explore the interaction of endothelial cells and cancer cells

• Main Author: Rehka, T.
• Other Authors: Lim Sierin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68482
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cancer is a fatal disease that cause overgrowth of cells. The spreading of these cells from a primary to secondary site is termed as cancer metastasis and this involves a very important step, extravasation. For studying this step, transwell assays are used but they pose a few problems. Furthermore,...