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In Vitro Assays of Biological Aggressiveness of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Researchers are developing new techniques and technologies to determine the characteristic features for cancer progression, thereby identifying potential targets and therapeutics to interfere these hallmark processes of cancer pathogenesis. The transformative researches using these in vitro methods have enable researchers to design precision treatments of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). These in vitro methods mainly include analysis of cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, colony formation, invasion, and migration in ESCC cells for analyzing manipulations affecting the biological behavior of ESCC. Because of these studies, important information on molecular mechanisms of different genes and proteins as well as result of therapeutic interventions are confirmed in ESCC.

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    Farhadul Islam, Vinod Gopalan & Alfred K. Lam

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Islam, F., Gopalan, V., Lam, A.K. (2020). In Vitro Assays of Biological Aggressiveness of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. In: Lam, A. (eds) Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2129. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0377-2_13

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