Therapy testing in a spheroid-based 3D cell culture model for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

J Hagemann, C Jacobi, S Gstoettner, C Welz… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2018 - jove.com
Current treatment options for advanced and recurrent head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC) enclose radiation and chemo-radiation approaches with or without …

Fibroblasts promote proliferation and matrix invasion of breast cancer cells in co‐culture models

M Plaster, S Singh, H Tavana - Advanced Therapeutics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fibroblasts are an abundant cell type in tumor microenvironments. Activated fibroblasts,
known as carcinoma‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs), interact with cancer cells through …

Cellular Effects of Selected Unsymmetrical Bisacridines on the Multicellular Tumor Spheroids of HCT116 Colon and A549 Lung Cancer Cells in Comparison to …

J Kulesza, E Paluszkiewicz, E Augustin - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Multicellular tumor spheroids are a good tool for testing new anticancer drugs, including
those that may target cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are responsible for cancer …

The ultrastructural analysis of human colorectal cancer stem cell-derived spheroids and their mouse xenograft shows that the same cells types have different ratios

M Relucenti, F Francescangeli, ML De Angelis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A comparative ultrastructural and flow cytometric analysis of colorectal
cancer-derived spheroids and their mouse xenografts showed that they both contain the …

Dielectrophoretic traps for efficient bead and cell trapping and formation of aggregates of controlled size and composition

C Lipp, L Koebel, A Bertsch, M Gauthier… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We present a microfluidic dielectrophoretic-actuated system designed to trap chosen single-
cell and form controlled cell aggregates. A novel method is proposed to characterize the …

Deterministic culturing of single cells in 3D

R Jain, S Chittiboyina, CL Chang, SA Lelièvre… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Models using 3D cell culture techniques are increasingly accepted as the most
biofidelic in vitro representations of tissues for research. These models are generated using …

Modeling adaptive drug resistance of colorectal cancer and therapeutic interventions with tumor spheroids

A Lamichhane, PS Thakuri… - Experimental …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Drug resistance is a major barrier against successful treatments of cancer patients. Various
intrinsic mechanisms and adaptive responses of tumor cells to cancer drugs often lead to …

Implicating the cholecystokinin B receptor in liver stem cell oncogenesis

MD Gay, JC Drda, W Chen, Y Huang… - American Journal …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fastest-growing cause of cancer-related deaths
worldwide. Chronic inflammation and fibrosis are the greatest risk factors for the …

Three-dimensional models of breast cancer–fibroblasts interactions

S Singh, S Tran, J Putman… - Experimental Biology and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Tumor microenvironment is a complex niche consisting of cancer cells and stromal cells in a
network of extracellular matrix proteins and various soluble factors. Dynamic interactions …

Bench to bedside: New therapeutic approaches with extracellular vesicles and engineered biomaterials for targeting therapeutic resistance of cancer stem cells

G Ingavle, M Das - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cancer has recently been the second leading cause of death worldwide, trailing only
cardiovascular disease. Cancer stem cells (CSCs), represented as tumor-initiating cells …