Development of solvent-casting particulate leaching (SCPL) polymer scaffolds as improved three-dimensional supports to mimic the bone marrow niche

A Sola, J Bertacchini, D D'Avella, L Anselmi… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The need for new approaches to investigate ex vivo the causes and effects of tumor and to
achieve improved cancer treatments and medical therapies is particularly urgent for …

3d tissue models as tools for radiotherapy screening for pancreatic cancer

G Wishart, P Gupta, G Schettino… - The British Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The efficiency of radiotherapy treatment regimes varies from tumour to tumour and from
patient to patient but it is generally highly influenced by the tumour microenvironment (TME) …

Isolation, maintenance and expansion of adult hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells and leukemic stem cells

IM Mayer, A Hoelbl-Kovacic, V Sexl, E Doma - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Transplantation of adult hematopoietic stem cells is an important
therapeutic tool to help patients suffering from diverse hematological disorders. All types of …

Culturing patient-derived malignant hematopoietic stem cells in engineered and fully humanized 3D niches

A García-García, T Klein, G Born… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Human malignant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) reside in bone marrow
(BM) niches, which remain challenging to explore due to limited in vivo accessibility and …

Pericytes' circadian clock affects endothelial cells' synchronization and angiogenesis in a 3D tissue engineered scaffold

V Mastrullo, DR Van Der Veen, P Gupta… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Angiogenesis, the formation of new capillaries from existing ones, is a fundamental process
in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. While it is known to be affected by …

A Novel Scaffold-Based Hybrid Multicellular Model for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma—Toward a Better Mimicry of the in vivo Tumor Microenvironment

P Gupta, PA Pérez-Mancera, H Kocher… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With a very low survival rate, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly
disease. This has been primarily attributed to (i) its late diagnosis and (ii) its high resistance …

[HTML][HTML] A three-dimensional ex vivo tri-culture model mimics cell-cell interactions between acute myeloid leukemia and the vascular niche

LJ Bray, M Binner, Y Körner, M von Bonin… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ex vivo studies of human disease, such as acute myeloid leukemia, are generally limited to
the analysis of two-dimensional cultures which often misinterpret the effectiveness of …

On the evaluation of a novel hypoxic 3D pancreatic cancer model as a tool for radiotherapy treatment screening

G Wishart, P Gupta, A Nisbet, G Schettino, E Velliou - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic cancer challenges global health with non-specific symptoms,
devastatingly low survival rates, and high treatment resistance profiles. Tissue engineering …

A 3D bioinspired highly porous polymeric scaffolding system for in vitro simulation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

S Totti, MC Allenby, SB Dos Santos, A Mantalaris… - RSC …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an aggressive disease with an extremely low survival
rate. This is due to the (i) poor prognosis and (ii) high resistance of the disease to current …

Chemotherapy assessment in advanced multicellular 3D models of pancreatic cancer: Unravelling the importance of spatiotemporal mimicry of the tumor …

P Gupta, C Bermejo‐Rodriguez, H Kocher… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a challenge for global health with very low
survival rate and high therapeutic resistance. Hence, advanced preclinical models for …