In Vitro Tumor Models: Advantages, Disadvantages, Variables, and Selecting the Right Platform

ME Katt, AL Placone, AD Wong, ZS Xu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In vitro tumor models have provided important tools for cancer research and serve as low-
cost screening platforms for drug therapies; however, cancer recurrence remains largely …

Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

P Nowak-Sliwinska, K Alitalo, E Allen, A Anisimov… - Angiogenesis, 2018 - Springer
The formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis, is a complex process that plays
important roles in growth and development, tissue and organ regeneration, as well as …

Tumor-on-a-chip: from bioinspired design to biomedical application

X Liu, J Fang, S Huang, X Wu, X **e, J Wang… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death, despite enormous efforts to explore
cancer biology and develop anticancer therapies. The main challenges in cancer research …

Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

Tumor-on-a-chip platform to investigate progression and drug sensitivity in cell lines and patient-derived organoids

VS Shirure, Y Bi, MB Curtis, A Lezia… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Most cancer treatment strategies target cell proliferation, angiogenesis, migration, and
intravasation of tumor cells in an attempt to limit tumor growth and metastasis. An in vitro …

Engineering vascularized organoid-on-a-chip models

VS Shirure, CCW Hughes… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Recreating human organ–level function in vitro is a rapidly evolving field that integrates
tissue engineering, stem cell biology, and microfluidic technology to produce 3D organoids …

Recent advances in body-on-a-chip systems

JH Sung, YI Wang, N Narasimhan Sriram… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Microphysiological systems (MPS, also known as “organ-on-a-chip”,“body-on-a-chip”, or
“human-on-a-chip”) have emerged over the last 15 years as attractive systems to probe …

Co-culture of tumor spheroids and fibroblasts in a collagen matrix-incorporated microfluidic chip mimics reciprocal activation in solid tumor microenvironment

SY Jeong, JH Lee, Y Shin, S Chung, HJ Kuh - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Multicellular 3D culture and interaction with stromal components are considered essential
elements in establishing a 'more clinically relevant'tumor model. Matrix-embedded 3D …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-on-chip modeling of organ-specific cancer and metastasis

N Del Piccolo, VS Shirure, Y Bi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, cancer claims millions of lives around the globe. Unfortunately, model systems
that accurately mimic human oncology–a requirement for the development of more effective …

Applications of microfluidics and organ-on-a-chip in cancer research

S Regmi, C Poudel, R Adhikari, KQ Luo - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Taking the life of nearly 10 million people annually, cancer has become one of the major
causes of mortality worldwide and a hot topic for researchers to find innovative approaches …