[HTML][HTML] Organ on chip technology to model cancer growth and metastasis

G Imparato, F Urciuolo, PA Netti - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organ on chip (OOC) has emerged as a major technological breakthrough and distinct
model system revolutionizing biomedical research and drug discovery by recapitulating the …

[HTML][HTML] Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway in oral cancer

Q Peng, Z Deng, H Pan, L Gu, O Liu… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is associated with tumor
cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis. The …

3D breast cancer microtissue reveals the role of tumor microenvironment on the transport and efficacy of free-doxorubicin in vitro

V Brancato, F Gioiella, G Imparato, D Guarnieri… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of 3D cancer models will have both ethical and economic impact in drug screening
and development, to promote the reduction of the animals employed in preclinical studies …

Bioengineered tumoral microtissues recapitulate desmoplastic reaction of pancreatic cancer

V Brancato, V Comunanza, G Imparato, D Corà… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Many of the existing three-dimensional (3D) cancer models in vitro fail to represent the entire
complex tumor microenvironment composed of cells and extra cellular matrix (ECM) and do …

Multi compartmental 3D breast cancer disease model–recapitulating tumor complexity in in-vitro

L Nair, S Mukherjee, K Kaur, CM Murphy… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most common ailment among women. In 2020, it had the highest
incidence of any type of cancer. Many Phase II and III anti-cancer drugs fail due to efficacy …

3D is not enough: Building up a cell instructive microenvironment for tumoral stroma microtissues

V Brancato, A Garziano, F Gioiella, F Urciuolo… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
We fabricated three-dimensional microtissues with the aim to replicate in vitro the
composition and the functionalities of the tumor microenvironment. By arranging either …

Reconstructing the tumor architecture into organoids

Z Luo, X Zhou, K Mandal, N He, W Wennerberg… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer remains a leading health burden worldwide. One of the challenges hindering cancer
therapy development is the substantial discrepancies between the existing cancer models …

Cell microencapsulation techniques for cancer modelling and drug discovery

L Barrett, K Coopman - Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cell encapsulation into spherical microparticles is a promising bioengineering tool in many
fields, including 3D cancer modelling and pre-clinical drug discovery. Cancer …

Biophysical properties of dermal building-blocks affect extra cellular matrix assembly in 3D endogenous macrotissue

F Urciuolo, A Garziano, G Imparato, V Panzetta… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The fabrication of functional tissue units is one of the major challenges in tissue engineering
due to their in vitro use in tissue-on-chip systems, as well as in modular tissue engineering …

The effect of porosity and stiffness of glutaraldehyde cross-linked egg white scaffold simulating aged extracellular matrix on distribution and aggregation of ovarian …

Z Guo, T Zhang, K Fang, P Liu, M Li, N Gu - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2016 - Elsevier
The extracellular matrix (ECM) regulates cellular behaviours in a way that it is still far from
completely understood, especially in cancer research field. Here we showed a simple …