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 in glioblastoma research: focus on the tumor microenvironment

A Bikfalvi, CA da Costa, T Avril, JV Barnier, L Bauchet… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most deadly type of malignant brain tumor, despite extensive
molecular analyses of GBM cells. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has …

Therapy resistance: opportunities created by adaptive responses to targeted therapies in cancer

M Labrie, JS Brugge, GB Mills… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Normal cells explore multiple states to survive stresses encountered during development
and self-renewal as well as environmental stresses such as starvation, DNA damage, toxins …

Tumor microenvironment as a therapeutic target in cancer

Y **ao, D Yu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor microenvironment denotes the non-cancerous cells and components presented in
the tumor, including molecules produced and released by them. The constant interactions …

A role for microfluidic systems in precision medicine

JM Ayuso, M Virumbrales-Muñoz, JM Lang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precision oncology continues to challenge the “one-size-fits-all” dogma. Under the precision
oncology banner, cancer patients are screened for molecular tumor alterations that predict …

Organ-on-a-chip: a new paradigm for drug development

C Ma, Y Peng, H Li, W Chen - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The pharmaceutical industry has been desperately searching for efficient drug discovery
methods. Organ-on-a-Chip, a cutting-edge technology that can emulate the physiological …

Is it time to start transitioning from 2D to 3D cell culture?

C Jensen, Y Teng - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell culture is an important and necessary process in drug discovery, cancer research, as
well as stem cell study. Most cells are currently cultured using two-dimensional (2D) …

Diversity and biology of cancer-associated fibroblasts

G Biffi, DA Tuveson - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Efforts to develop anti-cancer therapies have largely focused on targeting the epithelial
compartment, despite the presence of non-neoplastic stromal components that substantially …

Organoid and spheroid tumor models: techniques and applications

S Gunti, ATK Hoke, KP Vu, NR London Jr - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell cultures can be carried out in three dimensions (3D). Organoids and
spheroids are different 3D cell culture models that can be cultured with different techniques …

Tumor microenvironment

B Arneth - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: The tumor microenvironment has been widely implicated in
tumorigenesis because it harbors tumor cells that interact with surrounding cells through the …