3D printed drug delivery and testing systems—a passing fad or the future?

SH Lim, H Kathuria, JJY Tan, L Kang - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Food and Drug Administration approval of the first 3D printed tablet in 2015
has ignited growing interest in 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), for drug delivery …

Recent advances for cancer detection and treatment by microfluidic technology, review and update

N Bargahi, S Ghasemali, S Jahandar-Lashaki… - Biological Procedures …, 2022 - Springer
Numerous cancer-associated deaths are owing to a lack of effective diagnostic and
therapeutic approaches. Microfluidic systems for analyzing a low volume of samples offer a …

A tumor‐on‐a‐chip system with bioprinted blood and lymphatic vessel pair

X Cao, R Ashfaq, F Cheng, S Maharjan… - Advanced functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Current in vitro antitumor drug screening strategies insufficiently mimic biological systems.
They tend to lack true perfusion and draining microcirculation systems, which may post …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidics meets 3D cancer cell migration

P Mehta, Z Rahman, P Ten Dijke, PE Boukany - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
An early step of metastasis requires a complex and coordinated migration of invasive tumor
cells into the surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME), which contains extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Vascularization strategies in 3D cell culture models: from scaffold-free models to 3D bioprinting

SG Anthon, KP Valente - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The discrepancies between the findings in preclinical studies, and in vivo testing and clinical
trials have resulted in the gradual decline in drug approval rates over the past decades …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic systems for cancer diagnosis and applications

S Akgönüllü, M Bakhshpour, AK Pişkin, A Denizli - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices have led to novel biological advances through the improvement of micro
systems that can mimic and measure. Microsystems easily handle sub-microliter volumes …

[HTML][HTML] Application of microfluidics in drug development from traditional medicine

X Li, X Fan, Z Li, L Shi, J Liu, H Luo, L Wang, X Du… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
While there are many clinical drugs for prophylaxis and treatment, the search for those with
low or no risk of side effects for the control of infectious and non-infectious diseases is a …

Emergence of infectious diseases and role of advanced nanomaterials in point-of-care diagnostics: a review

K Markandan, YW Tiong, R Sankaran… - Biotechnology and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Infectious outbreaks are the foremost global public health concern, challenging the current
healthcare system, which claims millions of lives annually. The most crucial way to control …

An FOF1-ATPase motor-embedded chromatophore as a nanorobot for overcoming biological barriers and targeting acidic tumor sites

Q Yang, X Zhou, B Lou, N Zheng, J Chen, G Yang - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the booming progress of anticancer nanomedicines in the past two decades,
precise tumor-targetability and sufficient tumor-accumulation are less successful and still …

Advanced technological tools to study multidrug resistance in cancer

L Andrei, S Kasas, IO Garrido, T Stanković… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
The complexity of cancer biology and its clinical manifestation are driven by genetic,
epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic alterations, supported by genomic …