Three-dimensional culture systems in cancer research: Focus on tumor spheroid model

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 163, Issue , 2016, Pages 94-108

  Nath, Sritama ^a   Devi, Gayathri R ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; High throughput screening; Inflammatory breast cancer; Invasion; Oxidative stress; Tumor emboli

Indexed keywords

MATRIGEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HYDROGEL;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPRINTING; CANCER CELL; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; EXPLANT; GELATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; SURFACE TENSION; TENSILE STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL CULTURE SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SPHEROID; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; TUMOR INVASION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84964810989     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2016.03.013     Document Type: Review

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