The air liquid-interface, a skin microenvironment, promotes growth of melanoma cells, but not their apoptosis and invasion, through activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase.
Yee
Chong Hong
CH
Department of Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Japan.
Aoki
Shigehisa
S
Uchihashi
Kazuyoshi
K
Matsunobu
Aki
A
Yamasaki
Fumio
F
Misago
Noriyuki
N
Piao
Meihua
M
Tetsuji
Uemura
U
Yonemitsu
Nobuhisa
N
Sugihara
Hajime
H
Toda
Shuji
S
air-liquid interface; collagen gel invasion assay; melanoma; mitogen-activated protein kinase; proliferation