Organoid and spheroid tumor models: techniques and applications

S Gunti, ATK Hoke, KP Vu, NR London Jr - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell cultures can be carried out in three dimensions (3D). Organoids and
spheroids are different 3D cell culture models that can be cultured with different techniques …

Functional precision oncology using patient-derived assays: bridging genotype and phenotype

AWJ van Renterghem, J van de Haar… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Genomics-based precision medicine has revolutionized oncology but also has inherent
limitations. Functional precision oncology is emerging as a complementary approach that …

Application of prostate cancer models for preclinical study: advantages and limitations of cell lines, patient-derived xenografts, and three-dimensional culture of patient …

T Namekawa, K Ikeda, K Horie-Inoue, S Inoue - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Various preclinical models have been developed to clarify the pathophysiology of prostate
cancer (PCa). Traditional PCa cell lines from clinical metastatic lesions, as exemplified by …

Replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal experiments in anticancer drug development: the contribution of 3D in vitro cancer models in the drug efficacy …

EM Tosca, D Ronchi, D Facciolo, P Magni - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last decades three-dimensional (3D) in vitro cancer models have been proposed as a
bridge between bidimensional (2D) cell cultures and in vivo animal models, the gold …

Experimental in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models in prostate cancer research

V Sailer, G von Amsberg, S Duensing, J Kirfel… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Androgen deprivation therapy has a central role in the treatment of advanced prostate
cancer, often causing initial tumour remission before increasing independence from signal …

Zebrafish avatars towards personalized medicine—a comparative review between avatar models

B Costa, MF Estrada, RV Mendes, R Fior - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer frequency and prevalence have been increasing in the past decades, with
devastating impacts on patients and their families. Despite the great advances in targeted …

Mechanical studies of the third dimension in cancer: From 2D to 3D model

F Paradiso, S Serpelloni, LW Francis… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
From the development of self-aggregating, scaffold-free multicellular spheroids to the
inclusion of scaffold systems, 3D models have progressively increased in complexity to …

Applications and utility of three-dimensional in vitro cell culture for therapeutics

SM Ajjarapu, A Tiwari, S Kumar - Future Pharmacology, 2023 - mdpi.com
The field of 3D cell culture and its applications is rooted in the understanding of cell biology,
tissue engineering, tissue morphology, disease mechanisms, and drug action. For many …

Addressing patient specificity in the engineering of tumor models

LJ Bray, DW Hutmacher, N Bock - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer treatment is challenged by the heterogeneous nature of cancer, where prognosis
depends on tumor type and disease stage, as well as previous treatments. Optimal patient …

Organoids of the male reproductive system: Challenges, opportunities, and their potential use in fertility research

D Patrício, J Santiago, JF Mano… - WIREs Mechanisms of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organoids are units of function of a given organ able to reproduce, in culture, a biological
structure similar in architecture and function to its counterpart in vivo. Today, it is possible to …