An experimenter's guide to glioblastoma invasion pathways

MC de Gooijer, MG Navarro, R Bernards… - Trends in molecular …, 2018 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain tumor that is characterized by its unparalleled
invasiveness. Invasive glioblastoma cells not only escape surgery and focal therapies but …

Hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels to study cancer cell behaviors

K Goodarzi, SS Rao - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a natural polysaccharide and a key component of the extracellular
matrix (ECM) in many tissues. Therefore, HA-based biomaterials are extensively utilized to …

Glioblastoma spheroid growth and chemotherapeutic responses in single and dual-stiffness hydrogels

J Bruns, T Egan, P Mercier, SP Zustiak - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the deadliest brain tumor for which there is no cure. Bioengineered
GBM models, such as hydrogel-encapsulated spheroids, that capture both cell-cell and cell …

How cells respond to environmental cues–insights from bio-functionalized substrates

V Ruprecht, P Monzo, A Ravasio, Z Yue… - Journal of cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Biomimetic materials have long been the (he) art of bioengineering. They usually aim at
mimicking in vivo conditions to allow in vitro culture, differentiation and expansion of cells …

[HTML][HTML] HYDRHA: Hydrogels of hyaluronic acid. New biomedical approaches in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and tissue engineering

M Grieco, O Ursini, IE Palamà, G Gigli, L Moroni… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decade, hyaluronic acid (HA) has attracted an ever-growing interest in the
biomedical engineering field as a biocompatible, biodegradable, and chemically versatile …

Recapitulating in vivo-like plasticity of glioma cell invasion along blood vessels and in astrocyte-rich stroma

P Gritsenko, W Leenders, P Friedl - Histochemistry and cell biology, 2017 - Springer
Diffuse invasion of glioma cells into the brain parenchyma leads to nonresectable brain
tumors and poor prognosis of glioma disease. In vivo, glioma cells can adopt a range of …

Strategies of mesenchymal invasion of patient-derived brain tumors: microenvironmental adaptation

J Cha, SG Kang, P Kim - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The high mortality in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients is primarily caused by
extensive infiltration into adjacent tissue and subsequent rapid recurrence. There are no …

Engineered hydrogels for brain tumor culture and therapy

J Thakor, S Ahadian, A Niakan, E Banton… - Bio-design and …, 2020 - Springer
Brain tumors' severity ranges from benign to highly aggressive and invasive. Bioengineering
tools can assist in understanding the pathophysiology of these tumors from outside the body …

Evaluating glioblastoma tumour sphere growth and migration in interaction with astrocytes using 3D collagen-hyaluronic acid hydrogels

Y Cui, P Lee, JJ Reardon, A Wang, S Lynch… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Glioblastoma (GB) is an astrocytic brain tumour with a low survival rate, partly because of its
highly invasive nature. The GB tumour microenvironment (TME) includes its extracellular …

3D bioprinted hyaluronic acid-based cell-laden scaffold for brain microenvironment simulation

L Ma, Y Li, Y Wu, M Yu, A Aazmi, L Gao, Q Xue… - Bio-Design and …, 2020 - Springer
Treatments for lesions in central nervous system (CNS) are always faced with challenges
due to the anatomical and physiological particularity of the CNS despite the fact that several …