Active surface topographies in constrained hydrogel films for biomedical applications

Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate relative to all types of cancers, and unfortunately there still exist numerous challenges towards decreasing this rate. One of these challenges is gaining a clear understanding of why metastatic lung cancer cells attach and detach to colonize other areas of...

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Main Author: Ortiz, Ophir
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2010
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1731
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2730&context=etd