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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2016

Generation of Microtumors Using 3D Human Biogel Culture System and Patient-derived Glioblastoma Cells for Kinomic Profiling and Drug Response Testing.

Ashley N Gilbert, Rachael S Shevin, Joshua C Anderson, Catherine P Langford, Nicholas Eustace, G Yancey Gillespie, Raj Singh, Christopher D Willey

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ashley N GilbertBiomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Rachael S ShevinVivo Biosciences, Inc.
Joshua C AndersonRadiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Catherine P LangfordNeurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Nicholas EustaceRadiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
G Yancey GillespieNeurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Raj SinghVivo Biosciences, Inc.
Christopher D WilleyRadiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; cwilley@uab.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

CONTEMPORARY THERAPEUTICS FOR ANAPLASTIC GLIOMASP20CA151129 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI GILLESPIE, G. YANCEY · 2011 to 2013
$2.3M
Training Program in Brain Tumor BiologyT32NS048039 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BENVENISTE, ETTY N · 2007 to 2017
$2.0M
3D-Microtumor_GBM Xenoline Proband Modeling of Kinome-Directed TherapyR21CA185712 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WILLEY, CHRISTOPHER D · 2014 to 2015
$363k
NCI NIH HHS P20 CA151129NCI NIH HHS R21 CA185712NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS048039
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of patient-derived xenografts for modeling cancers has provided important insight into cancer biology and drug responsiveness. However, they are time consuming, expensive, and labor intensive. To overcome these obstacles, many research groups have turned to spheroid cultures of cancer cells. While useful, tumor spheroids or aggregates do not replicate cell-matrix interactions as found in vivo. As such, three-dimensional (3D) culture approaches utilizing an extracellular matrix scaffold provide a more realistic model system for investigation. Starting from subcutaneous or intracranial xenografts, tumor tissue is dissociated into a single cell suspension akin to cancer stem cell neurospheres. These cells are then embedded into a human-derived extracellular matrix, 3D human biogel, to generate a large number of microtumors. Interestingly, microtumors can be cultured for about a month with high viability and can be used for drug response testing using standard cytotoxicity assays such as 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) and live cell imaging using Calcein-AM. Moreover, they can be analyzed via immunohistochemistry or harvested for molecular profiling, such as array-based high-throughput kinomic profiling, which is detailed here as well. 3D microtumors, thus, represent a versatile high-throughput model system that can more closely replicate in vivo tumor biology than traditional approaches.

Indexed as

Cell Culture TechniquesGlioblastomaCell Line, TumorHumansNeoplastic Stem CellsSpheroids, Cellular

Identifiers

PMID27341166
PMCPMC4927781
OpenAlexW2417156317

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