384 hanging drop arrays give excellent Z‐factors and allow versatile formation of co‐culture spheroids

AY Hsiao, YC Tung, X Qu, LR Patel… - Biotechnology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We previously reported the development of a simple, user‐friendly, and versatile 384
hanging drop array plate for 3D spheroid culture and the importance of utilizing 3D cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Designing and interpreting 4D tumour spheroid experiments

RJ Murphy, AP Browning, G Gunasingh… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour spheroid experiments are routinely used to study cancer progression and treatment.
Various and inconsistent experimental designs are used, leading to challenges in …

The multicellular tumor spheroid model for high-throughput cancer drug discovery

DV LaBarbera, BG Reid, BH Yoo - Expert opinion on drug …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: For the past 30 years 2D-cell-based assay models have dominated preclinical
cancer drug discovery efforts. 2D-cell-based models fail to predict in vivo efficacy …

In vivo therapeutic applications of cell spheroids

CS Ong, X Zhou, J Han, CY Huang, A Nashed… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spheroids are increasingly being employed to answer a wide range of clinical and
biomedical inquiries ranging from pharmacology to disease pathophysiology, with the …

Cellular capsules as a tool for multicellular spheroid production and for investigating the mechanics of tumor progression in vitro

K Alessandri, BR Sarangi… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the multifactorial determinants of tumor progression requires standardized high-
throughput preparation of 3D in vitro cellular assays. We present a simple microfluidic …

[HTML][HTML] In Vitro three-dimensional (3D) cell culture tools for spheroid and organoid models

SY Lee, IS Koo, HJ Hwang, DW Lee - SLAS Discovery, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture technology has been steadily studied since the
1990's due to its superior biocompatibility compared to the conventional two-dimensional …

Generation of multicellular tumor spheroids by the hanging-drop method

NE Timmins, LK Nielsen - Tissue engineering, 2007 - Springer
Owing to their in vivo-like characteristics, three-dimensional (3 D) multicellular tumor
spheroid (MCTS) cultures are gaining increasing popularity as an in vitro model of tumors. A …

Towards automated production and drug sensitivity testing using scaffold‐free spherical tumor microtissues

M Drewitz, M Helbling, N Fried, M Bieri, W Moritz… - 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Although the relevance of three‐dimensional (3‐D) culture has been recognized for years
and exploited at an academic level, its translation to industrial applications has been slow …

Liquid-based three-dimensional tumor models for cancer research and drug discovery

SL Ham, R Joshi, PS Thakuri… - … biology and medicine, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Tumors are three-dimensional tissues where close contacts between cancer cells,
intercellular interactions between cancer and stromal cells, adhesion of cancer cells to the …

Self-filling microwell arrays (SFMAs) for tumor spheroid formation

A Seyfoori, E Samiei, N Jalili, B Godau, M Rahmanian… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Tumor spheroid formation in microwell arrays is a promising approach for high-throughput
screening of chemotherapeutic agents. This method offers the advantage of better mimicking …