Heralding a new paradigm in 3D tumor modeling

ELS Fong, DA Harrington, MC Farach-Carson, H Yu - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Numerous studies to date have contributed to a paradigm shift in modeling cancer, moving
from the traditional two-dimensional culture system to three-dimensional (3D) culture …

Recent advances in microfluidic devices for single-cell cultivation: methods and applications

D Anggraini, N Ota, Y Shen, T Tang, Y Tanaka… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-cell analysis is essential to improve our understanding of cell functionality from
cellular and subcellular aspects for diagnosis and therapy. Single-cell cultivation is one of …

Multi-parametric hydrogels support 3D in vitro bioengineered microenvironment models of tumour angiogenesis

LJ Bray, M Binner, A Holzheu, J Friedrichs… - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Tumour microenvironment greatly influences the development and metastasis of cancer
progression. The development of three dimensional (3D) culture models which mimic that …

Glycosaminoglycan-based hydrogels to modulate heterocellular communication in in vitro angiogenesis models

K Chwalek, MV Tsurkan, U Freudenberg, C Werner - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Angiogenesis, the outgrowth of blood vessels, is crucial in development, disease and
regeneration. Studying angiogenesis in vitro remains challenging because the capillary …

Microfluidic tumor–vascular model to study breast cancer cell invasion and intravasation

S Nagaraju, D Truong, G Mouneimne… - Advanced healthcare …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is a major leading cause of disease‐related death in the world. The severe impact of
cancer can be attributed to poor understanding of the mechanisms involved in earliest steps …

Differences in growth properties of endometrial cancer in three dimensional (3D) culture and 2D cell monolayer

K Chitcholtan, E Asselin, S Parent, PH Sykes… - Experimental cell …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models have an invaluable role in understanding
the behaviour of tumour cells in a well defined microenvironment. This is because some …

Screening therapeutic EMT blocking agents in a three-dimensional microenvironment

AR Aref, RYJ Huang, W Yu, KN Chua, W Sun… - Integrative …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role in the early stages of
dissemination of carcinoma leading to metastatic tumors, which are responsible for over …

The variety of 3D breast cancer models for the study of tumor physiology and drug screening

E Fröhlich - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and responsible for multiple deaths
worldwide. 3D cancer models enable a better representation of tumor physiology than the …

Three-dimensional cultures of mouse mammary epithelial cells

R Mroue, MJ Bissell - Epithelial Cell Culture Protocols: Second Edition, 2013 - Springer
The mammary gland is an ideal “model organism” for studying tissue specificity and gene
expression in mammals: it is one of the few organs that develop after birth and it undergoes …

Endothelial induced EMT in breast epithelial cells with stem cell properties

V Sigurdsson, B Hilmarsdottir, H Sigmundsdottir… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical event in cancer progression and is
closely linked to the breast epithelial cancer stem cell phenotype. Given the close interaction …