Organotypic 3D models of the ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment

KM Watters, P Bajwa, HA Kenny - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer progression involves multifaceted and variable tumor microenvironments
(TMEs), from the in situ carcinoma in the fallopian tube or ovary to dissemination into the …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional modelling of ovarian cancer: From cell lines to organoids for discovery and personalized medicine

C Yee, KA Dickson, MN Muntasir, Y Ma… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality of all of the gynecological malignancies. There are
several distinct histotypes of this malignancy characterized by specific molecular events and …

Three-dimensional modeling of ovarian cancer

EA White, HA Kenny, E Lengyel - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
New models for epithelial ovarian cancer initiation and metastasis are required to obtain a
mechanistic understanding of the disease and to develop new therapeutics. Modeling …

Heterotypic three-dimensional in vitro modeling of stromal-epithelial interactions during ovarian cancer initiation and progression

K Lawrenson, B Grun, SA Gayther - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2012 - jove.com
Epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs) are the leading cause of death from gynecological
malignancy in Western societies. Despite advances in surgical treatments and improved …

Personalized models of heterogeneous 3D epithelial tumor microenvironments: Ovarian cancer as a model

EN Horst, ME Bregenzer, P Mehta, CS Snyder… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Intractable human diseases such as cancers, are context dependent, unique to both the
individual patient and to the specific tumor microenvironment. However, conventional cancer …

Modeling the tumor microenvironment of ovarian cancer: the application of self-assembling biomaterials

AK Mendoza-Martinez, D Loessner, A Mata… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The tumor-surrounding niche comprises not only cancer cells but also
stromal cells, signaling molecules, secreted factors and the extracellular matrix. This niche …

Transcriptional landscape of 3D vs. 2D ovarian cancer cell models

R Kerslake, B Belay, S Panfilov, M Hall, I Kyrou… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Ovarian cancer is one of the most lethal female cancers. Numerous
investigations into the development and progression of this disease have resulted in the …

[HTML][HTML] A three-dimensional microenvironment alters protein expression and chemosensitivity of epithelial ovarian cancer cells in vitro

JM Lee, P Mhawech-Fauceglia, N Lee… - Laboratory …, 2013 - Elsevier
For many cancers, there is a real need for more effective therapies. Although many drugs
show promising results in vitro, most fail to translate into an in vivo model system, and only∼ …

Modeling the early steps of ovarian cancer dissemination in an organotypic culture of the human peritoneal cavity

PN Peters, EM Schryver, E Lengyel… - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2015 - jove.com
The pattern of ovarian cancer metastasis is markedly different from that of most other
epithelial tumors, because it rarely spreads hematogenously. Instead, ovarian cancer cells …

A 3D multi-cellular tissue model of the human omentum to study the formation of ovarian cancer metastasis

M Estermann, R Coelho, F Jacob, YL Huang, CY Liang… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Reliable and predictive experimental models are urgently needed to study metastatic
mechanisms of ovarian cancer cells in the omentum. Although models for ovarian cancer …