Biological properties and development of hypoxia in a breast cancer 3D model generated by hanging drop technique

MA Badea, M Balas, A Dinischiotu - Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2022 - Springer
Hanging drop represents a simple approach designed for the generation of 3D models that
have potential to be used for the study of solid tumors characteristics. The aim of the study …

Centrifugal generation of droplet-based 3D cell cultures

JA De Lora, JL Velasquez, NJ Carroll… - SLAS …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Quickly and easily producing uniform populations of microsphere-based 3D cell cultures
using droplet-based templating methods has the potential to enable widespread use of such …

Tumour spheroid technology in cancer therapy research

J Carlsson, T Nederman - European Journal of Cancer and Clinical …, 1989 - Elsevier
THIS COMMENTARY is focussed on recent publications about tumour spheroid technology
in cancer therapy research and mainly on those publications describing the effects of …

Decreased mitochondrial function in quiescent cells isolated from multicellular tumor spheroids

JP Freyer - Journal of cellular physiology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Cells in the inner region of multicellular spheroids markedly reduce their oxygen
consumption rate, presumably in response to their stressful microenvironment. To determine …

Penetration efficiency of antitumor agents in ovarian cancer spheroids: the case of recombinant targeted toxin DARPin-LoPE and the chemotherapy drug, doxorubicin

E Sokolova, O Kutova, A Grishina, A Pospelov… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The efficiency of delivering a therapeutic agent into a tumor is among the crucial factors
determining the prospects for its clinical use. This problem is particularly acute in the case of …

Doxorubicin distribution in multicellular prostate cancer spheroids evaluated by confocal laser scanning microscopy and the “optical probe technique”

M Wartenberg, J Hescheler, H Acker… - … : The Journal of the …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Multicell‐mediated drug resistance is a major impediment for the effectiveness of
chemotherapeutic approaches and has been shown to be a feature of many solid tumors …

Quantitative recording of vitality patterns in living multicellular spheroids by confocal microscopy

M Wartenberg, H Acker - Micron, 1995 - Elsevier
Fluorescent dyes were used in conjunction with confocal microscopy to record the vitality
status of cells in multicellular glioma spheroids. Multicellular spheroids are in vitro models …

Essential operating principles for tumor spheroid growth

JA Engelberg, GEP Ropella, CA Hunt - BMC systems biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Our objective was to discover in silico axioms that are plausible representations
of the operating principles realized during characteristic growth of EMT6/Ro mouse …

Three‐dimensional cell culture induces novel proliferative and metabolic alterations associated with oncogenic transformation

LA Kunz‐Schughart, K Groebe… - … journal of cancer, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
To date, cell biological characteristics of oncogene‐transfected cells have been investigated
either in relatively homogeneous monolayer cultures or in heterogeneous tumors in vivo. To …

Mathematical modelling of avascular tumour growth based on diffusion of nutrients and its validation

KL Kiran, D Jayachandran… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a mathematical model based on the diffusion of nutrients is developed by
considering the physiological changes accompanying the growth of avascular tumour …