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Modeling Tumor Phenotypes In Vitro with Three-Dimensional Bioprinting.

ABSTRACT: The tumor microenvironment plays a critical role in tumor growth, progression, and therapeutic resistance, but interrogating the role of specific tumor-stromal interactions on tumorigenic phenotypes is challenging within in vivo tissues. Here, we tested whether three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting could improve in vitro models by incorporating multiple cell types into scaffold-free tumor tissues with defined architecture. We generated tumor tissues from distinct subtypes of breast or pancreatic cancer in relevant microenvironments and demonstrate that this technique can model patient-specific tumors by using primary patient tissue. We assess intrinsic, extrinsic, and spatial tumorigenic phenotypes in bioprinted tissues and find that cellular proliferation, extracellular matrix deposition, and cellular migration are altered in response to extrinsic signals or therapies. Together, this work demonstrates that multi-cell-type bioprinted tissues can recapitulate aspects of in vivo neoplastic tissues and provide a manipulable system for the interrogation of multiple tumorigenic endpoints in the context of distinct tumor microenvironments.

SUBMITTER: Langer EM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366459 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Modeling Tumor Phenotypes In Vitro with Three-Dimensional Bioprinting.

Langer Ellen M EM Allen-Petersen Brittany L BL King Shelby M SM Kendsersky Nicholas D ND Turnidge Megan A MA Kuziel Genevra M GM Riggers Rachelle R Samatham Ravi R Amery Taylor S TS Jacques Steven L SL Sheppard Brett C BC Korkola James E JE Muschler John L JL Thibault Guillaume G Chang Young Hwan YH Gray Joe W JW Presnell Sharon C SC Nguyen Deborah G DG Sears Rosalie C RC

Cell reports 20190101 3

The tumor microenvironment plays a critical role in tumor growth, progression, and therapeutic resistance, but interrogating the role of specific tumor-stromal interactions on tumorigenic phenotypes is challenging within in vivo tissues. Here, we tested whether three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting could improve in vitro models by incorporating multiple cell types into scaffold-free tumor tissues with defined architecture. We generated tumor tissues from distinct subtypes of breast or pancreatic ca ...[more]

PMID: 30650355

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Modeling Tumor Phenotypes In Vitro with Three-Dimensional Bioprinting.

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Modeling Tumor Phenotypes In Vitro with Three-Dimensional Bioprinting.

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