Engineered in vitro tumor models for cell-based immunotherapy

Y Ando, C Mariano, K Shen - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor immunotherapy is rapidly evolving as one of the major pillars of cancer treatment.
Cell-based immunotherapies, which utilize patient's own immune cells to eliminate cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Urinary tract tumor organoids reveal eminent differences in drug sensitivities when compared to 2-dimensional culture systems

Y Wei, B Amend, T Todenhoefer, N Lipke… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Generation of organoids from urinary tract tumor samples was pioneered a few years ago.
We generated organoids from two upper tract urothelial carcinomas and from one bladder …

Antitumor activity of a mitochondrial-targeted HSP90 inhibitor in gliomas

S Wei, D Yin, S Yu, X Lin, MR Savani, K Du, Y Ku… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate the antitumor activity of a mitochondrial-localized HSP90 inhibitor,
Gamitrinib, in multiple glioma models, and to elucidate the antitumor mechanisms of …

A Screening of Native (Poly) phenols and Gut‐Related Metabolites on 3D HCT116 Spheroids Reveals Gut Health Benefits of a Flavan‐3‐ol Metabolite

J Rubert, P Gatto, M Pancher… - Molecular Nutrition & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Scope Epidemiological evidence suggests that a reduced risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) is
correlated with high consumption of fruits and vegetables, which are major sources of fiber …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-Derived Lung Tumoroids—An Emerging Technology in Drug Development and Precision Medicine

H Lê, J Seitlinger, V Lindner, A Olland, PE Falcoz… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Synthetic 3D multicellular systems derived from patient tumors, or tumoroids, have been
developed to complete the cancer research arsenal and overcome the limits of current …

[HTML][HTML] New frontiers in three-dimensional culture platforms to improve diabetes research

S Mohandas, V Gayatri, K Kumaran, V Gopinath… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Diabetes mellitus is associated with defects in islet β-cell functioning and consequent
hyperglycemia resulting in multi-organ damage. Physiologically relevant models that mimic …

Complexity in in-vitro tumor microenvironment reconstruction for drug screening and personalized medicine

A Ghosh, S Ghosh, F Pati, S Duraiswamy - Bioprinting, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer cells do not exist in isolation; their dynamic interaction with other cells and non-cell
components in the tumor microenvironment (TME) allows them to divide and evolve. Recent …

The use of organoids in food research

JE Stanton, AM Grabrucker - Current Opinion in Food Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Organoid cultures can be used to overcome limitations observed in 2D
cultures.•Mutagenesis of organoids allows the recapitulation of diseases.•Patient-derived …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a cancer metastasis-on-chip assay for high throughput drug screening

LY Ozer, HS Fayed, J Ericsson, A Al Haj Zen - Frontiers in Oncology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Metastasis is the cause of most triple-negative breast cancer deaths, yet anti-metastatic
therapeutics remain limited. To develop new therapeutics to prevent metastasis …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming of the Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Landscape in Three-Dimensional Cancer Cell Cultures

AJ Heredia-Mendez, G Sánchez-Sánchez… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Genome-wide DNA methylation is a regulatory mechanism that is
frequently altered in human cancers. Remarkably, these epigenetic marks on DNA are …