Tumor Vascular Network
| Title: | Tumor Vascular Network |
|---|---|
| Description: |
The microenvironment that surrounds a tumor plays a crucial role in helping cancer to grow and evade destruction. This image of the vascular network in a mouse model for HER2-positive breast cancer uses a novel imaging technique called transparent tumor tomography that three-dimensionally visualizes the tumor microenvironment at a single cell resolution. Smooth muscle cells (red), endothelial cells (cyan), and fibroblast (green) in a whole xenografted TUBO (BALB-neuT clone) tumor. This image was originally submitted as part of the 2016 NCI Cancer Close Up project. |
| Topics/Categories: |
Cancer Types -- Breast Cancer Cells or Tissue -- Abnormal Cells or Tissue |
| Type: | Color, Photo (JPEG format) |
| Source: | National Cancer Institute \ Univ. of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| Creator: | Steve Seung-Young Lee |
| Date Created: | July 2015 |
| Date Added: | April 11, 2016 |
| Reuse Restrictions: | None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and, where possible, the creator listed above. |