[HTML][HTML] Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Cutting-edge platforms for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, L Hamabe, A Abugomaa… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, biomedicine and tissue regeneration have emerged as great advances that
impacted the spectrum of healthcare. This left the door open for further improvement of their …

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 …

High-strength hydrogels: Fabrication, reinforcement mechanisms, and applications

H Huang, Z Dong, X Ren, B Jia, G Li, S Zhou, X Zhao… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
With the continuous appearance and expansion of high-strength hydrogels in emerging
fields such as industry, medicine, and green development, the synthesis and application of …

Halfway between 2D and animal models: are 3D cultures the ideal tool to study cancer-microenvironment interactions?

J Hoarau-Véchot, A Rafii, C Touboul… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
An area that has come to be of tremendous interest in tumor research in the last decade is
the role of the microenvironment in the biology of neoplastic diseases. The tumor …

CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities

K Han, SE Pierce, A Li, K Spees, GR Anderson… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genomics studies have identified thousands of putative cancer driver genes.
Development of high-throughput and accurate models to define the functions of these genes …

Current and emerging applications of 3D printing in medicine

CY Liaw, M Guvendiren - Biofabrication, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing enables the production of anatomically matched
and patient-specific devices and constructs with high tunability and complexity. It also allows …

Three‑dimensional cell culture: A powerful tool in tumor research and drug discovery

D Lv, Z Hu, L Lu, H Lu, X Xu - Oncology letters, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
In previous years, three‑dimensional (3D) cell culture technology has become a focus of
research in tumor cell biology, using a variety of methods and materials to mimic the in vivo …

Manufacturing of hydrogel biomaterials with controlled mechanical properties for tissue engineering applications

A Vedadghavami, F Minooei, MH Mohammadi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels have been recognized as crucial biomaterials in the field of tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, and drug delivery applications due to their specific characteristics …

Functionalization, preparation and use of cell-laden gelatin methacryloyl–based hydrogels as modular tissue culture platforms

D Loessner, C Meinert, E Kaemmerer, LC Martine… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
Progress in advancing a system-level understanding of the complexity of human tissue
development and regeneration is hampered by a lack of biological model systems that …

Hydrogel microenvironments for cancer spheroid growth and drug screening

Y Li, E Kumacheva - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Multicellular cancer spheroids (MCSs) have emerged as a promising in vitro model that
replicates many features of solid tumors in vivo. Biomimetic hydrogel scaffolds for MCS …