Hit the Ground Running: Cancer Cells Metastasize the Lungs Early Upon Dissemination
Hit the Ground Running: Cancer Cells Metastasize the Lungs Early Upon Dissemination
Ahmed El-Badawy
MIT Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Koch Institute at MIT
This image shows tumor cells (red) which have experimentally metastasized to the lungs and some cells started to form metastatic colonies very rapidly after disseminating to the lungs. Red: Td-Tomato positive tumor cells, Green: CD31 Positive endothelial cells, Blue: Nucleus