Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

Challenges of applying multicellular tumor spheroids in preclinical phase

SJ Han, S Kwon, KS Kim - Cancer cell international, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) multicellular tumor spheroids (MCTs) model is
becoming an essential tool in cancer research as it expresses an intermediate complexity …

[HTML][HTML] 3D in vitro model (R) evolution: unveiling tumor–stroma interactions

J Rodrigues, MA Heinrich, LM Teixeira, J Prakash - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
The complex microenvironment in which malignant tumor cells grow is crucial for cancer
progression. The physical and biochemical characteristics of this niche are involved in …

3D tumor spheroids as in vitro models to mimic in vivo human solid tumors resistance to therapeutic drugs

AS Nunes, AS Barros, EC Costa… - Biotechnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Three‐dimensional cell culture models, such as spheroids, can be used in the process of the
development of new anticancer agents because they are able to closely mimic the main …

Vascularized cancer on a chip: The effect of perfusion on growth and drug delivery of tumor spheroid

Y Nashimoto, R Okada, S Hanada, Y Arima… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumor vasculature creates a hostile tumor microenvironment (TME) in vivo and nourishes
cancers, resulting in cancer progression and drug resistance. To mimic the biochemical and …

[HTML][HTML] Bioreactor technologies for enhanced organoid culture

JP Licata, KH Schwab, YE Har-El… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
An organoid is a 3D organization of cells that can recapitulate some of the structure and
function of native tissue. Recent work has seen organoids gain prominence as a valuable …

Bioengineering approaches for the advanced organoid research

SA Yi, Y Zhang, C Rathnam, T Pongkulapa… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in 3D cell culture technology have enabled scientists to generate stem cell
derived organoids that recapitulate the structural and functional characteristics of native …

3D cancer models: One step closer to in vitro human studies

N Manduca, E Maccafeo, R De Maria, A Sistigu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy is the great breakthrough in cancer treatment as it displayed
prolonged progression-free survival over conventional therapies, yet, to date, in only a …

Strategies to capitalize on cell spheroid therapeutic potential for tissue repair and disease modeling

KH Griffin, SW Fok, J Kent Leach - NPJ Regenerative Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Cell therapies offer a tailorable, personalized treatment for use in tissue engineering to
address defects arising from trauma, inefficient wound repair, or congenital malformation …

[HTML][HTML] Translating complexity and heterogeneity of pancreatic tumor: 3D in vitro to in vivo models

MA Heinrich, AMRH Mostafa, JP Morton… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely aggressive type of cancer with
an overall survival rate of less than 7-8%, emphasizing the need for novel effective …