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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2023

Towards a New 3Rs Era in the construction of 3D cell culture models simulating tumor microenvironment.

Long Zhang, Weiqi Liao, Shimin Chen, Yukun Chen, Pengrui Cheng, Xinjun Lu, Yi Ma

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Beyond monolayers: a comparative analysis of 2D cell cultures and 3DFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026
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  8. Esophageal adenocarcinoma models: a closer look.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Long ZhangOrgan Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Weiqi LiaoZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Shimin ChenZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yukun ChenZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Pengrui ChengOrgan Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Xinjun LuDepartment of Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yi MaOrgan Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional cell culture technology (3DCC) sits between two-dimensional cell culture (2DCC) and animal models and is widely used in oncology research. Compared to 2DCC, 3DCC allows cells to grow in a three-dimensional space, better simulating the

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cell culturethe three dimensionalthe two dimensionaltumor cellstumor microenvironment

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PMID37077835
PMCPMC10106600

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