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CIL:41735*  Cite 
Description

This confocal and phase contrast image depicts the chemotactic behaviour of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells. The nuclei are labelled blue and the mitochondria are labelled red. The cells are squeezed into micro-scale channels to study large numbers of single cells migrating with varying concentrations of epidermal growth factor (EGF, shown in green) at the leading and trailing edge of the cell. The individual channels are 12 microns wide. Wellcome Image Award 2012.

Technical Details

0008497. 2011 Collection: Wellcome Images Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0 UK: England & Wales, see http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Prices.html

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Homo sapiens
Cell Line
MDA-MB-231
Cellular Component
nucleus
mitochondrion
epidermal growth factor
Biological Context
Biological Process
chemotaxis
Human Disease
DOID:0050671
Attribution
Names
Salil Dasai
Sangeeta Bhatia
Mehmet Toner
Daniel Irimia
Link
Wellcome Images
OTHER
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL41735
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil41735
Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
dispersed cells in vitro
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 1476px ——
Y 550px ——