Recent advances on cell culture platforms for in vitro drug screening and cell therapies: from conventional to microfluidic strategies

BD Cardoso, EMS Castanheira… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The clinical translations of drugs and nanomedicines depend on coherent pharmaceutical
research based on biologically accurate screening approaches. Since establishing the 2D in …

Three-dimensional cell culture: A powerful tool in tumor research and drug discovery

D Lv, Z Hu, L Lu, H Lu, X Xu - Oncology letters, 2017‏ - spandidos-publications.com
In previous years, three-dimensional (3D) cell culture technology has become a focus of
research in tumor cell biology, using a variety of methods and materials to mimic the in vivo …

REV1-Polζ maintains the viability of homologous recombination-deficient cancer cells through mutagenic repair of PRIMPOL-dependent ssDNA gaps

A Taglialatela, G Leuzzi, V Sannino, R Cuella-Martin… - Molecular cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
BRCA1/2 mutant tumor cells display an elevated mutation burden, the etiology of which
remains unclear. Here, we report that these cells accumulate ssDNA gaps and spontaneous …

The extracellular matrix modulates the hallmarks of cancer

MW Pickup, JK Mouw, VM Weaver - EMBO reports, 2014‏ - embopress.org
The extracellular matrix regulates tissue development and homeostasis, and its
dysregulation contributes to neoplastic progression. The extracellular matrix serves not only …

Extrusion bioprinting of soft materials: An emerging technique for biological model fabrication

T Jiang, JG Munguia-Lopez, S Flores-Torres… - Applied Physics …, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
Bioprinting has attracted increasing attention in the tissue engineering field and has been
touted to potentially become the leading technology to fabricate, and regenerate, tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of 2D-and 3D-culture models as drug-testing platforms in breast cancer

Y Imamura, T Mukohara, Y Shimono… - Oncology …, 2015‏ - spandidos-publications.com
It is becoming recognized that screening of oncology drugs on a platform using two-
dimensionally (2D)-cultured cell lines is unable to precisely select clinically active drugs; …

The matrix environmental and cell mechanical properties regulate cell migration and contribute to the invasive phenotype of cancer cells

CT Mierke - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The minimal structural unit of a solid tumor is a single cell or a cellular compartment such as
the nucleus. A closer look inside the cells reveals that there are functional compartments or …

Modeling tumor phenotypes in vitro with three-dimensional bioprinting

EM Langer, BL Allen-Petersen, SM King… - Cell reports, 2019‏ - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment plays a critical role in tumor growth, progression, and
therapeutic resistance, but interrogating the role of specific tumor-stromal interactions on …

Air− liquid interface cultures of the healthy and diseased human respiratory tract: promises, challenges, and future directions

D Baldassi, B Gabold, OM Merkel - Advanced nanobiomed …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Air− liquid interface (ALI) culture models currently represent a valid instrument to recreate
the typical aspects of the respiratory tract in vitro in both healthy and diseased state. They …

The role of ultrasound-driven microbubble dynamics in drug delivery: From microbubble fundamentals to clinical translation

S Roovers, T Segers, G Lajoinie, J Deprez, M Versluis… - Langmuir, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
In the last couple of decades, ultrasound-driven microbubbles have proven excellent
candidates for local drug delivery applications. Besides being useful drug carriers …