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Elsa Correia Faria1, Nan Ma, Ehsan Gazi
1School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. elsa.faria@manchester.ac.uk
The Analyst
|October 22, 2008
Abstract:
This communication reports that three prostate cancer cells of differing metastatic potential were discriminated based on their Young's moduli (LNCaP - 287 +/- 52 N m(-2), PC-3 - 1401 +/- 162 N m(-2) and BPH - 2797 +/- 491 N m(-2)) which were determined using AFM and the Hertz model.
