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ArticleScientific reports2021

A vascularized tumoroid model for human glioblastoma angiogenesis.

Agavi Stavropoulou Tatla, Alexander W Justin, Colin Watts, Athina E Markaki

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Advancing glioblastoma therapy with surface-modified nanoparticles.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  9. Recent advances in 3D printing applications for CNS tumours.European journal of medical research · 2025
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  11. Practical immunomodulatory landscape of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) therapy.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2024
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  18. The Glioblastoma CircularRNAome.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Agavi Stavropoulou TatlaDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. as2307@cam.ac.uk.
Alexander W JustinDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK.
Colin WattsDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
Athina E MarkakiDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. am253@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) angiogenesis is critical for tumor growth and recurrence, making it a compelling therapeutic target. Here, a disease-relevant, vascularized tumoroid in vitro model with stem-like features and stromal surrounds is reported. The model is used to recapitulate how individual components of the GBM's complex brain microenvironment such as hypoxia, vasculature-related stromal cells and growth factors support GBM angiogenesis. It is scalable, tractable, cost-effective and can be used with biologically-derived or biomimetic matrices. Patient-derived primary GBM cells are found to closely participate in blood vessel formation in contrast to a GBM cell line containing differentiated cells. Exogenous growth factors amplify this effect under normoxia but not at hypoxia suggesting that a significant amount of growth factors is already being produced under hypoxic conditions. Under hypoxia, primary GBM cells strongly co-localize with umbilical vein endothelial cells to form sprouting vascular networks, which has been reported to occur in vivo. These findings demonstrate that our 3D tumoroid in vitro model exhibits biomimetic attributes that may permit its use as a preclinical model in studying microenvironment cues of tumor angiogenesis.

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Neovascularization, PathologicTissue Culture TechniquesTumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkersBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorFluorescent Antibody TechniqueGlioblastomaHumansHuman Umbilical Vein Endothelial CellsImmunohistochemistrySpheroids, CellularBiomarkers

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PMID34599235
PMCPMC8486855

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