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ArticleOncology letters2017

Three-dimensional cell culture: A powerful tool in tumor research and drug discovery.

Donglai Lv, Zongtao Hu, Lin Lu, Husheng Lu, Xiuli Xu

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Article in Oncology letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 223 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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223 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Donglai LvDepartment of Clinical Oncology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China.
Zongtao HuDepartment of Clinical Oncology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China.
Lin LuDepartment of Clinical Oncology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China.
Husheng LuDepartment of Clinical Oncology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China.
Xiuli XuDepartment of Clinical Oncology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In previous years, three-dimensional (3D) cell culture technology has become a focus of research in tumor cell biology, using a variety of methods and materials to mimic the

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cell biologydrug discoverythree-dimensional culturetumor cells

Identifiers

PMID29344128
PMCPMC5754907

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