Tumor in 3D: in vitro complex cellular models to improve nanodrugs cancer therapy

S Fernandes, M Cassani, S Pagliari… - Current Medicinal …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Nanodrugs represent novel solutions to reshuffle repurposed drugs for cancer therapy. They
might offer different therapeutic options by combining targeted drug delivery and imaging in …

From 2D to 3D cancer cell models—the enigmas of drug delivery research

I Van Zundert, B Fortuni, S Rocha - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the past decades, research has made impressive breakthroughs towards drug delivery
systems, resulting in a wide range of multifunctional engineered nanoparticles with …

In vitro and in vivo tumor models for the evaluation of anticancer nanoparticles

TR Abreu, M Biscaia, N Gonçalves, NA Fonseca… - Bio-Nanomedicine for …, 2021 - Springer
Multiple studies about tumor biology have revealed the determinant role of the tumor
microenvironment in cancer progression, resulting from the dynamic interactions between …

Three-dimensional culture models: emerging platforms for screening the antitumoral efficacy of nanomedicines

LB Tofani, MT Luiz, JA Paes Dutra, JP Abriata… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nanomedicines have been investigated for delivering drugs to tumors due to their ability to
accumulate in the tumor tissues. 2D in vitro cell culture has been used to investigate the …

Three-dimensional spheroids as in vitro preclinical models for cancer research

B Pinto, AC Henriques, PMA Silva, H Bousbaa - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Most cancer biologists still rely on conventional two-dimensional (2D) monolayer culture
techniques to test in vitro anti-tumor drugs prior to in vivo testing. However, the vast majority …

Meet me halfway: Are in vitro 3D cancer models on the way to replace in vivo models for nanomedicine development?

S Pozzi, A Scomparin, SI Dangoor, DR Ajamil… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The complexity and diversity of the biochemical processes that occur during tumorigenesis
and metastasis are frequently over-simplified in the traditional in vitro cell cultures. Two …

Probing the relevance of 3D cancer models in nanomedicine research

DT Leong, KW Ng - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
For decades, 2D cell culture format on plastic has been the main workhorse in cancer
research. Though many important understandings of cancer cell biology were derived using …

Nanomedicine as a multimodal therapeutic paradigm against cancer: on the way forward in advancing precision therapy

P Sandbhor, P Palkar, S Bhat, G John, JS Goda - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent years have witnessed dramatic improvements in nanotechnology-based cancer
therapeutics, and it continues to evolve from the use of conventional therapies …

The effective combination between 3D cancer models and stimuli-responsive nanoscale drug delivery systems

F Foglietta, L Serpe, R Canaparo - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stimuli-responsive drug-delivery systems (DDSs) have emerged as a potential tool for
applications in healthcare, mainly in the treatment of cancer where versatile nanocarriers …

Nanotechnology meets 3D in vitro models: Tissue engineered tumors and cancer therapies

EL Da Rocha, LM Porto, CR Rambo - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
Advances in nanotechnology are providing to medicine a new dimension. Multifunctional
nanomaterials with diagnostics and treatment modalities integrated in one nanoparticle or in …