ArticleOncology letters2019
Impact of spheroid culture on molecular and functional characteristics of bladder cancer cell lines.
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- Unlocking the Potential of Spheroids in Personalized Medicine: A Systematic Review of Seeding Methodologies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Investigation of Anti-Cancer Properties of Nano-Encapsulated Ciprofloxacin Using 3D Cancer Cell Spheroids as Tumour Models.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Bladder cancer: therapeutic challenges and role of 3D cell culture systems in the screening of novel cancer therapeutics.Cancer cell international · 2023Review
- Precision oncology using ex vivo technology: a step towards individualised cancer care?Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2022Review
- Thermomagnetic Resonance Effect of the Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field on Three-Dimensional Cancer Models.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- In Vitro Spectroscopy-Based Profiling of Urothelial Carcinoma: A Fourier Transform Infrared and Raman Imaging Study.Cancers · 2021Article
- Isoharringtonine Induces Apoptosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells in Tumorspheroids via the Intrinsic Pathway.Biomolecules · 2020Article
- Human Organ-Specific 3D Cancer Models Produced by the Stromal Self-Assembly Method of Tissue Engineering for the Study of Solid Tumors.BioMed research international · 2020Review
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Abstract
The three-dimensional cell culture system is an increasingly important technique for discovering new biological aspects of cancer cells. In the present study it was demonstrated that bladder cancer cell lines, RT4 and 5637, spontaneously formed round multicellular spheroids (MCSs) in suspension by the aggregation method. MCSs consisted of cells differentially expressing luminal/basal markers. Western blotting showed that PPARγ and forkhead box A1 (FOXA1)of luminal markers were expressed to a lesser extent in MCSs than in parental cells grown in two-dimensional (2D) adherent culture. Cells in MCSs in suspension proliferated less efficiently, and were more resistant to cisplatin (CDDP) and gemcitabine than parental cells grown in 2D culture. Culturing cell lines as MCSs in suspension is a notable platform to decipher alternative biological aspects of bladder cancer cells, which could not be unraveled by the conventional 2D adherent culture.
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