Strategies for 3D bioprinting of spheroids: A comprehensive review

D Banerjee, YP Singh, P Datta, V Ozbolat, A O'Donnell… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofabricated tissues have found numerous applications in tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine in addition to the promotion of disease modeling and drug …

Spheroids-on-a-chip: Recent advances and design considerations in microfluidic platforms for spheroid formation and culture

K Moshksayan, N Kashaninejad, ME Warkiani… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
A cell spheroid is a three-dimensional (3D) aggregation of cells. Synthetic, in-vitro spheroids
provide similar metabolism, proliferation, and species concentration gradients to those found …

Organ‐on‐a‐Chip Systems: microengineering to biomimic living systems

F Zheng, F Fu, Y Cheng, C Wang, Y Zhao, Z Gu - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
“Organ‐on‐a‐chip” systems integrate microengineering, microfluidic technologies, and
biomimetic principles to create key aspects of living organs faithfully, including critical …

Organ-on-a-chip platforms for studying drug delivery systems

NS Bhise, J Ribas, V Manoharan, YS Zhang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2014 - Elsevier
Novel microfluidic tools allow new ways to manufacture and test drug delivery systems.
Organ-on-a-chip systems—microscale recapitulations of complex organ functions—promise …

[HTML][HTML] Chemoresistance of cancer cells: requirements of tumor microenvironment-mimicking in vitro models in anti-cancer drug development

Y Jo, N Choi, K Kim, HJ Koo, J Choi, HN Kim - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For decades, scientists have been using two-dimensional cell culture platforms for high-
throughput drug screening of anticancer drugs. Growing evidence indicates that the results …

Microsensor systems for cell metabolism–from 2D culture to organ-on-chip

J Kieninger, A Weltin, H Flamm, GA Urban - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Microsensor systems for cell metabolism are essential tools for investigation and
standardization in cell culture. Electrochemical and optical read-out schemes dominate …

A microfluidic platform for cultivating ovarian cancer spheroids and testing their responses to chemotherapies

N Dadgar, AM Gonzalez-Suarez, P Fattahi… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
There is increasing interest in utilizing in vitro cultures as patient avatars to develop
personalized treatment for cancer. Typical cultures utilize Matrigel-coated plates and media …

Organs-on-a-chip: a new tool for drug discovery

A Polini, L Prodanov, NS Bhise… - Expert opinion on …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The development of emerging in vitro tissue culture platforms can be useful for
predicting human response to new compounds, which has been traditionally challenging in …

A microfluidic-based platform for tumour spheroid culture, monitoring and drug screening

K Kwapiszewska, A Michalczuk, M Rybka… - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of novel cellular models that can replace animals in preclinical trials of
drug candidates is one of the major goals of cell engineering. Current in vitro screening …

Modeling human carcinomas: physiologically relevant 3D models to improve anti-cancer drug development

C Unger, N Kramer, A Walzl, M Scherzer… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014 - Elsevier
Anti-cancer drug development is inefficient, mostly due to lack of efficacy in human patients.
The high fail rate is partly due to the lack of predictive models or the inadequate use of …