Spheroids in radiobiology and photodynamic therapy

C Dubessy, JL Merlin, C Marchal, F Guillemin - Critical reviews in oncology …, 2000 - Elsevier
Spheroids are tridimensional aggregates of tumor cells coming from one or several cell
clones. This model, which mimics the micro-tumors structure and some of their properties …

Changes in subcellular distribution of topoisomerase IIα correlate with etoposide resistance in multicell spheroids and xenograft tumors

A Oloumi, SH MacPhail, PJ Johnston, JP Banáth… - Cancer Research, 2000 - AACR
The outer cells of Chinese hamster V79 spheroids are about 10 times more resistant than
monolayers to DNA damage and cell killing by the topoisomerase (topo) II inhibitor …

Amino acid uptake and regulation in multicellular hepatoma spheroids

TM Pawlik, WW Souba, TJ Sweeney… - Journal of Surgical …, 2000 - Elsevier
Background. Cancer cells maintained in monolayer tissue culture are frequently used to
study tumor biology and nutrient uptake, but there is a concern that this system may not fully …

Modelling the effect of cell shedding on avasacular tumour growth

JP Ward, JR King - Computational and Mathematical Methods in …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Earlier mathematical models of the authors which describe avascular tumour growth are
extended to incorporate the process of cell shedding, a feature known to affect the growth of …

Kinetics of Spheroid Self-assembly in Well and Poorly Differentiated Prostate Cells

RM Enmon Jr - 2000 - search.proquest.com
The in vitro self-assembly of multicellular spheroids generates highly organized structures in
which the three-dimensional structure and differentiated function frequently mimic that of in …