Membrane fluidity correlates with liver cancer cell proliferation and infiltration potential
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- Published online on: May 1, 2001 https://doi.org/10.3892/or.8.3.527
- Pages: 527-532
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Abstract
We developed a method to measure membrane fluidity of living cancer cells in two- and three-dimensional cultures, and found that there was a close relationship between the membrane fluidity of cancer cells and their proliferative and infiltrative ability. Membrane fluidity is thus a promising indicator of the probability of cancer recurrence.