Microfluidics‐based 3D cell culture models: Utility in novel drug discovery and delivery research

N Gupta, JR Liu, B Patel, DE Solomon… - Bioengineering & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation of microfluidic devices within life sciences has furthered the possibilities
of both academic and industrial applications such as rapid genome sequencing, predictive …

Innovations in 3D tissue models of human brain physiology and diseases

ML Lovett, TJF Nieland, YTL Dingle… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D laboratory tissue cultures have emerged as an alternative to traditional 2D
culture systems that do not recapitulate native cell behavior. The discrepancy between in …

Human decellularized adipose tissue scaffold as a model for breast cancer cell growth and drug treatments

LW Dunne, Z Huang, W Meng, X Fan, N Zhang… - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Human adipose tissue extracellular matrix, derived through decellularization processing,
has been shown to provide a biomimetic microenvironment for adipose tissue regeneration …

Cardiospheres recapitulate a niche-like microenvironment rich in stemness and cell-matrix interactions, rationalizing their enhanced functional potency for myocardial …

TS Li, K Cheng, ST Lee, S Matsushita, D Davis… - Stem …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Cardiac stem cells (CSCs) are promising candidates for use in myocardial regenerative
therapy. We test the hypothesis that growing cardiac-derived cells as three-dimensional …

Genome-wide gene expression analysis in cancer cells reveals 3D growth to affect ECM and processes associated with cell adhesion but not DNA repair

O Zschenker, T Streichert, S Hehlgans, N Cordes - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Cell morphology determines cell behavior, signal transduction, protein-protein interaction,
and responsiveness to external stimuli. In cancer, these functions profoundly contribute to …

Three-dimensional fibrous scaffolds with microstructures and nanotextures for tissue engineering

R Ng, R Zang, KK Yang, N Liu, ST Yang - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Much effort has been dedicated to developing scaffolds that can mimic native
microenvironments to promote tissue regeneration. A natural tissue scaffold provides not …

Combination of hyaluronic acid hydrogel scaffold and PLGA microspheres for supporting survival of neural stem cells

Y Wang, YT Wei, ZH Zu, RK Ju, MY Guo… - Pharmaceutical …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose To develop a biomaterial composite for promoting proliferation and migration of
neural stem cells (NSCs), as well as angiogenesis on the materials, to rescue central …

Electrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons cultured in a 3D collagen hydrogel

T Xu, P Molnar, C Gregory, M Das, T Boland… - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as
'entrapped'evenly distributed cells,(2) at the interface of two collagen layers (sandwich …

Electrophysiology read-out tools for brain-on-chip biotechnology

C Forro, D Caron, GN Angotzi, V Gallo, L Berdondini… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brain-on-Chip (BoC) biotechnology is emerging as a promising tool for biomedical and
pharmaceutical research applied to the neurosciences. At the convergence between lab-on …

High throughput scaffold-based 3D micro-tumor array for efficient drug screening and chemosensitivity testing

X Yan, L Zhou, Z Wu, X Wang, X Chen, F Yang, Y Guo… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Oncology drug development is greatly hampered by inefficient drug screening using 2D
culture. Herein, we present ready-to-use micro-scaffolds in 384-well format to generate …