Targeting tumor microenvironment for cancer therapy

C Roma-Rodrigues, R Mendes, PV Baptista… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer development is highly associated to the physiological state of the tumor
microenvironment (TME). Despite the existing heterogeneity of tumors from the same or from …

Application of cancer organoid model for drug screening and personalized therapy

J Kondo, M Inoue - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drug screening—ie, testing the effects of a number of drugs in multiple cell lines—is used for
drug discovery and development, and can also be performed to evaluate the heterogeneity …

Bioprinting for neural tissue engineering

S Knowlton, S Anand, T Shah, S Tasoglu - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
Bioprinting is a method by which a cell-encapsulating bioink is patterned to create complex
tissue architectures. Given the potential impact of this technology on neural research, we …

Advanced cell culture platforms: a growing quest for emulating natural tissues

M Mirbagheri, V Adibnia, BR Hughes… - Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the body, cells inhabit within a complex three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrix that
provides physical and chemical signals to regulate the cell fate. Cultured cells in Petri dishes …

A novel tumor-immune microenvironment (TIME)-on-Chip mimics three dimensional neutrophil-tumor dynamics and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)-mediated …

V Surendran, D Rutledge, R Colmon… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutrophils are the most abundant type of leukocytes in the blood, traditionally regarded as
the first immune responders to infections and inflammations. In the context of tumors …

Modelling liver cancer microenvironment using a novel 3D culture system

A Al Hrout, K Cervantes-Gracia, R Chahwan, A Amin - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The tumor microenvironment and its contribution to tumorigenesis has been a focal highlight
in recent years. A two-way communication between the tumor and the surrounding …

Cell counting and viability assessment of 2D and 3D cell cultures: expected reliability of the trypan blue assay

F Piccinini, A Tesei, C Arienti, A Bevilacqua - Biological procedures online, 2017 - Springer
Background Whatever the target of an experiment in cell biology, cell counting and viability
assessment are always computed. The Trypan Blue (TB) assay was proposed about a …

Precision biomaterials in cancer theranostics and modelling

D Caballero, CM Abreu, AC Lima, NM Neves, RL Reis… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite significant achievements in the understanding and treatment of cancer, it remains a
major burden. Traditional therapeutic approaches based on the 'one-size-fits-all'paradigm …

Anticancer drug discovery using multicellular tumor spheroid models

M Zanoni, S Pignatta, C Arienti, M Bonafè… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Despite the increasing financial outlay on cancer research and drug discovery,
many advanced cancers remain incurable. One possible strategy for increasing the approval …

Biofabrication of a tri-layered 3D-bioprinted CSC-based malignant melanoma model for personalized cancer treatment

JL de Andrés, M Ruiz-Toranzo, C Antich… - …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Conventional in vitro cancer models do not accurately reproduce the tumor
microenvironment (TME), so three-dimensional (3D)-bioprinting represents an excellent tool …