Intravital imaging of tumor cell motility in the tumor microenvironment context

B Bayarmagnai, L Perrin… - Cell Migration: Methods …, 2018 - Springer
Cancer cell motility and invasion are key features of metastatic tumors. Both are highly
linked to tumor microenvironmental parameters, such as collagen architecture or …

Assessing micrometastases as a target for nanoparticles using 3D microscopy and machine learning

BR Kingston, AM Syed, J Ngai… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Metastasis of solid tumors is a key determinant of cancer patient survival. Targeting
micrometastases using nanoparticles could offer a way to stop metastatic tumor growth …

[HTML][HTML] Physical biomarkers of disease progression: on-chip monitoring of changes in mechanobiology of colorectal cancer cells

FJ Armistead, J Gala De Pablo, H Gadêlha… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Disease can induce changes to subcellular components, altering cell phenotype and
leading to measurable bulk-material mechanical properties. The mechanical phenotyping of …

Cytoskeletal stiffness, friction, and fluidity of cancer cell lines with different metastatic potential

MF Coughlin, DR Bielenberg, G Lenormand… - Clinical & experimental …, 2013 - Springer
We quantified mechanical properties of cancer cells differing in metastatic potential. These
cells included normal and H-ras-transformed NIH3T3 fibroblast cells, normal and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analyses of the tumor microenvironment composition and orientation in the era of precision medicine

F Petitprez, CM Sun, L Lacroix… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tumors are formed by aggregates of cells of various origins including malignant, stromal
and immune cells. The number of therapies targeting the microenvironment is increasing as …

In vitro 3D Models of Tunable Stiffness

EC Filipe, AL Parker, AL Cadell, G Major… - Metastasis: Methods and …, 2021 - Springer
Three-dimensional models of spheroid formation have been routinely used in the cancer
field to test the colony forming capacity of malignant cells in an in vitro setting. Use of such a …

Biophysical informatics approach for quantifying phenotypic heterogeneity in cancer cell migration in confined microenvironments

X Zhang, M Mak - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Cancer cell heterogeneity can manifest genetically and phenotypically.
Bioinformatics methods have been used to analyze complex genomics and transcriptomics …

[HTML][HTML] In silico modelling of cancer nanomedicine, across scales and transport barriers

NR Stillman, M Kovacevic, I Balaz… - NPJ Computational …, 2020 - nature.com
Nanoparticles promise to improve the treatment of cancer through their increasingly
sophisticated functionalisations and ability to accumulate in certain tumours. Yet recent work …

A computational framework for identifying design guidelines to increase the penetration of targeted nanoparticles into tumors

S Hauert, S Berman, R Nagpal, SN Bhatia - Nano today, 2013 - Elsevier
Targeted nanoparticles are increasingly being engineered for the treatment of cancer. By
design, they can passively accumulate in tumors, selectively bind to targets in their …

[图书][B] An introduction to physical oncology: How mechanistic mathematical modeling can improve cancer therapy outcomes

V Cristini, E Koay, Z Wang - 2017 - books.google.com
Physical oncology has the potential to revolutionize cancer research and treatment. The
fundamental rationale behind this approach is that physical processes, such as transport …