3D cell culture models as recapitulators of the tumor microenvironment for the screening of anti-cancer drugs

MAG Barbosa, CPR Xavier, RF Pereira, V Petrikaitė… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models have been proposed as
alternatives for initial drug screening to increase drug development efficiency. In addition to …

Replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal experiments in anticancer drug development: the contribution of 3D in vitro cancer models in the drug efficacy …

EM Tosca, D Ronchi, D Facciolo, P Magni - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last decades three-dimensional (3D) in vitro cancer models have been proposed as a
bridge between bidimensional (2D) cell cultures and in vivo animal models, the gold …

Three‐dimensional culture models to study drug resistance in breast cancer

MF Fisher, SS Rao - Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent advances in breast cancer treatment, drug resistance frequently presents as
a challenge, contributing to a higher risk of relapse and decreased overall survival rate. It is …

Applicability of drug response metrics for cancer studies using biomaterials

EA Brooks, S Galarza, MF Gencoglu… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bioengineers have built models of the tumour microenvironment (TME) in which to study cell–
cell interactions, mechanisms of cancer growth and metastasis, and to test new therapies …

MRI analysis to map interstitial flow in the brain tumor microenvironment

KM Kingsmore, A Vaccari, D Abler, SX Cui… - APL …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly aggressive form of brain tumor, is a disease marked by
extensive invasion into the surrounding brain. Interstitial fluid flow (IFF), or the movement of …

Co-administration of H-ferritin-doxorubicin and Trastuzumab in neoadjuvant setting improves efficacy and prevents cardiotoxicity in HER2+ murine breast cancer …

F Andreata, A Bonizzi, M Sevieri, M Truffi, M Monieri… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been established as the standard of care for HER2-positive
breast cancer since it allows cancer down-staging, up to pathological complete response …

A patient-designed tissue-engineered model of the infiltrative glioblastoma microenvironment

RC Cornelison, JX Yuan, KM Tate, A Petrosky… - NPJ Precision …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer characterized by diffuse infiltration. Infiltrated
glioma cells persist in the brain post-resection where they interact with glial cells and …

A spheroid whole mount drug testing pipeline with machine-learning based image analysis identifies cell-type specific differences in drug efficacy on a single-cell level

M Vitacolonna, R Bruch, R Schneider, J Jabs, M Hafner… - BMC cancer, 2024 - Springer
Background The growth and drug response of tumors are influenced by their stromal
composition, both in vivo and 3D-cell culture models. Cell-type inherent features as well as …

Assessing drug response in engineered brain microenvironments

KM Tate, JM Munson - Brain research bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
Tissue engineered systems are important models for the testing and discovery of
therapeutics against a number of diseases. The use of these models in vitro can expand …

OrgDyn: feature-and model-based characterization of spatial and temporal organoid dynamics

Z Hasnain, AK Fraser, D Georgess, A Choi… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Organoid model systems recapitulate key features of mammalian tissues and enable high
throughput experiments. However, the impact of these experiments may be limited by …