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How to identify fibroblast characteristic - (Apr/26/2011 )

I want to characterize primary fibroblast from cholangiocarcinoma tissue. and i found the upregulation of vimentin and ASMA by immunocytochemistry.
I can not seperate fibroblast from cancer cell-EMT. Could someone suggest me about the indicator for distinguish this fibroblast ? And I wonder that how different charateristic between fibroblast and cancer-EMT?

-chlerella-

Have you looked at Miltenyi Biotech's website? They may have some products and the customer support to help you.

-lab rat-