Advanced in vitro lung models for drug and toxicity screening: the promising role of induced pluripotent stem cells

A Moreira, M Müller, PF Costa, Y Kohl - Advanced Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The substantial socioeconomic burden of lung diseases, recently highlighted by the
disastrous impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, accentuates the …

Polymeric Biomaterials for In Vitro Cancer Tissue Engineering and Drug Testing Applications

S Pradhan, I Hassani, JM Clary… - Tissue Engineering Part B …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Biomimetic polymers and materials have been widely used in tissue engineering for
regeneration and replication of diverse types of both normal and diseased tissues. Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Mimicking tumor hypoxia in non-small cell lung cancer employing three-dimensional in vitro models

I Ziółkowska-Suchanek - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hypoxia is the most common microenvironment feature of lung cancer tumors, which affects
cancer progression, metastasis and metabolism. Oxygen induces both proteomic and …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-tumor-on-a-chip for chemosensitivity assay: a critical review

N Kashaninejad, MR Nikmaneshi, H Moghadas… - Micromachines, 2016 - mdpi.com
With a mortality rate over 580,000 per year, cancer is still one of the leading causes of death
worldwide. However, the emerging field of microfluidics can potentially shed light on this …

Emerging trends in the methodology of environmental toxicology: 3D cell culture and its applications

H Wang, T Xu, D Yin - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Human diseases and health concerns caused by environmental pollutants are globally
emerging. Therefore, rapid and efficient evaluation of the effects of environmental pollutants …

Microfluidic nanodevices for drug sensing and screening applications

A Pal, K Kaswan, SR Barman, YZ Lin, JH Chung… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The outbreak of pandemics (eg, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2 in 2019), influenza A viruses (H1N1 in 2009), etc.), and worldwide spike in the aging …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopic imaging methods for organ-on-a-chip platforms

BC Buchanan, JY Yoon - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microscopic imaging is essential and the most popular method for in situ monitoring and
evaluating the outcome of various organ-on-a-chip (OOC) platforms, including the number …

Micro-scaffold array chip for upgrading cell-based high-throughput drug testing to 3D using benchtop equipment

X Li, X Zhang, S Zhao, J Wang, G Liu, Y Du - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-based high throughput drug screening accelerates the pace of drug discovery which is
routinely operated on planar high-density multi-well plates with sophisticated robotic liquid …

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 …

In-vitro tumor microenvironment models containing physical and biological barriers for modelling multidrug resistance mechanisms and multidrug delivery strategies

M Rahmanian, A Seyfoori, M Ghasemi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
The complexity and heterogeneity of the three-dimensional (3D) tumor microenvironment
have brought challenges to tumor studies and cancer treatment. The complex functions and …