ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2024
Engineered Tumor-Immune Microenvironment On A Chip to Study T Cell-Macrophage Interaction in Breast Cancer Progression.
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- Multimodal profiling of CAR T cells against glioblastoma using a microengineered 3D tumor-on-a-chip model.Bioactive materials · 2026Article
- Modeling macrophage-T cell interactions in the breast cancer immune microenvironment: from spatial omics to functional validation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Engineering Complexity: Advances in 3D Breast Cancer Models for Precision Oncology.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- Microfluidic chips for decoding cancer-immune crosstalk in immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Advances in engineering immune-tumor microenvironments on-a-chip: integrative microfluidic platforms for immunotherapy and drug discovery.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
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- Tumor Microenvironment On-A-Chip and Single-Cell Analysis Reveal Synergistic Stromal-Immune Crosstalk on Breast Cancer Progression.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Unravelling approaches to study macrophages: from classical to novel biophysical methodologies.PeerJ · 2025Review
- Tumor-on-chip platforms for breast cancer continuum concept modeling.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Breaking the mold: 3D cell cultures reshaping the future of cancer research.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Evolving knowledge about the tumor-immune microenvironment (TIME) is driving innovation in designing novel therapies against hard-to-treat breast cancer. Targeting the immune components of TIME has emerged as a promising approach for cancer therapy. While recent immunotherapies aim at restoring antitumor immunity, counteracting tumor escape remains challenging. Hence there is a pressing need to better understand the complex tumor-immune crosstalk within TIME. Considering this imperative, this study aims at investigating the crosstalk between the two abundant immune cell populations within the breast TIME-macrophages and T cells, in driving tumor progression using an organotypic 3D in vitro tumor-on-a-chip (TOC) model. The TOC features distinct yet interconnected organotypic tumor and stromal entities. This triculture platform mimics the complex TIME, embedding the two immune populations in a suitable 3D matrix. Analysis of invasion, morphometric measurements, and flow cytometry results underscores the substantial contribution of macrophages to tumor progression, while the presence of T cells is associated with a deceleration in the migratory behavior of both cancer cells and macrophages. Furthermore, cytokine analyses reveal significant upregulation of leptin and RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T Cell expressed and secreted) in triculture. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of TIME and the critical role of immune cells in cancer progression.
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