Metastatic voyage of ovarian cancer cells in ascites with the assistance of various cellular components

K Uno, S Iyoshi, M Yoshihara, K Kitami, K Mogi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy and has a unique
metastatic route using ascites, known as the transcoelomic root. However, studies on ascites …

Insights into the tumor-stromal-immune cell metabolism cross talk in ovarian cancer

PW Tang, L Frisbie, N Hempel… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment (TME) consists of a constellation of abundant
cellular components, extracellular matrix, and soluble factors. Soluble factors, such as …

Sequential delivery of quercetin and paclitaxel for the fibrotic tumor microenvironment remodeling and chemotherapy potentiation via a dual-targeting hybrid micelle-in …

H Duan, C Liu, Y Hou, Y Liu, Z Zhang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), an important type of stromal cells in the tumor
microenvironment (TME), are responsible for creating physical barriers to drug delivery and …

3D bioprinted tumor model with extracellular matrix enhanced bioinks for nanoparticle evaluation

Y Chen, L Xu, W Li, W Chen, Q He, X Zhang… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The traditional evaluation of nanoparticles (NPs) is mainly based on 2D cell culture and
animal models. However, these models are difficult to accurately represent human tumor …

Acetylsalicylic acid and salicylic acid present anticancer properties against melanoma by promoting nitric oxide-dependent endoplasmic reticulum stress and …

P Ausina, JR Branco, TM Demaria, AM Esteves… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive and fatal type of skin cancer due to being highly
proliferative. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA; Aspirin) and salicylic acid (SA) are ancient drugs with …

Multicellular tumor spheroids: A convenient in vitro model for translational cancer research

T Patel, N Jain - Life Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
In the attempts to mitigate uncertainties in the results of monolayer culture for the
identification of cancer therapeutic targets and compounds, there has been a growing …

Molecular insights of metastasis and cancer progression derived using 3D cancer spheroid co-culture in vitro platform

U Modi, P Makwana, R Vasita - Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 2021 - Elsevier
The multistep metastasis process is carried out by the combinatorial effect of the stromal
cells and the cancerous cells and plays vital role in the cancer progression. The …

Infantile hemangioma models: is the needle in a haystack?

M Kong, Y Li, K Wang, S Zhang, Y Ji - Journal of translational medicine, 2023 - Springer
Infantile hemangioma (IH) is the most prevalent benign vascular tumor in infants, with
distinct disease stages and durations. Despite the fact that the majority of IHs can regress …

Towards a New 3Rs Era in the construction of 3D cell culture models simulating tumor microenvironment

L Zhang, W Liao, S Chen, Y Chen, P Cheng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Three-dimensional cell culture technology (3DCC) sits between two-dimensional cell culture
(2DCC) and animal models and is widely used in oncology research. Compared to 2DCC …

Development of a multicellular 3D tumor model to study cellular heterogeneity and plasticity in NSCLC tumor microenvironment

L Arora, M Kalia, S Dasgupta, N Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Heterogeneity is a characteristic feature of solid tumors. Intra-tumor heterogeneity includes
phenotypic diversity, epigenetic abnormalities, cell proliferation, and plasticity that eventually …