Nanoparticle drug delivery systems and their applications as targeted therapies for triple negative breast cancer

X Kong, Y Qi, X Wang, R Jiang, J Wang, Y Fang… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The therapeutic effect of highly malignant triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is negatively
affected by the formation of tumor cell resistant clone and the severe toxicity of …

Challenges of applying multicellular tumor spheroids in preclinical phase

SJ Han, S Kwon, KS Kim - Cancer cell international, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) multicellular tumor spheroids (MCTs) model is
becoming an essential tool in cancer research as it expresses an intermediate complexity …

3D bioprinted vascularized tumour for drug testing

S Han, S Kim, Z Chen, HK Shin, SY Lee… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
An in vitro screening system for anti-cancer drugs cannot exactly reflect the efficacy of drugs
in vivo, without mimicking the tumour microenvironment (TME), which comprises cancer …

A microfluidic spheroid culture device with a concentration gradient generator for high-throughput screening of drug efficacy

W Lim, S Park - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture is considered more clinically relevant in mimicking the
structural and physiological conditions of tumors in vivo compared to two-dimensional cell …

[HTML][HTML] From cell spheroids to vascularized cancer organoids: Microfluidic tumor-on-a-chip models for preclinical drug evaluations

Y Wu, Y Zhou, X Qin, Y Liu - Biomicrofluidics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Chemotherapy is one of the most effective cancer treatments. Starting from the discovery of
new molecular entities, it usually takes about 10 years and 2 billion US dollars to bring an …

[HTML][HTML] Spheroid-on-chip microfluidic technology for the evaluation of the impact of continuous flow on metastatic potential in cancer models in vitro

T Collins, E Pyne, M Christensen, A Iles, N Pamme… - …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The majority of cancer deaths are linked to tumor spread, or metastasis, but 3D in vitro
metastasis models relevant to the tumor microenvironment (including interstitial fluid flow) …

Technological advances in tumor-on-chip technology: From bench to bedside

S Bērziņa, A Harrison, V Taly, W Xiao - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Various 3D in vitro tumor models are rapidly advancing cancer research.
Unlike animal models, they can be produced quickly and are amenable to high-throughput …

A microfluidic platform for multi-size 3D tumor culture, monitoring and drug resistance testing

W Liu, M Sun, B Lu, M Yan, K Han, J Wang - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The establishment of a miniaturized platform capable of microscale control for sequential,
coordinated, and throughput biomimetic tumor manipulation and analysis offer a high …

Uniform tumor spheroids on surface-optimized microfluidic biochips for reproducible drug screening and personalized medicine

N Azizipour, R Avazpour, MH Weber, M Sawan, A Ajji… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Spheroids are recognized for resembling the important characteristics of natural tumors in
cancer research. However, the lack of controllability of the spheroid size, form, and density in …

Core-Crosslinked Fluorescent Worm-Like Micelles for Glucose-Mediated Drug Delivery

JK Elter, S Quader, J Eichhorn, M Gottschaldt… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We herein report the fabrication of core-crosslinked, fluorescent, and surface-functionalized
worm-like block copolymer micelles as drug delivery vehicles. The polyether-based diblock …