Gelatine methacrylamide - based hydrogels: An alternative three - dimensional
cancer cell culture system.
Not exact matches
Glutamine addiction has often been studied in
cell culture systems that are genetically altered to overproduce c - MYC, a central regulator of growth and proliferation in all
cells that is frequently de-regulated in
cancers.
However, this coupling does not exist in
cell culture models with exogenously expressed c - MYC — the type of
systems that are mainly used to investigate glutamine addiction in
cancer.
They tested the
system on
cell cultures, and then in live mice with breast
cancer and mice with constricted arteries in their legs.
Indeed, when JQ1 was added to the 3D
culture system, it reversed the genetic changes to the pancreatic
cancer cells that the stromal signals had caused.
These results provide the validity to the newly developed hypoxia / reoxygenation
culture system for examining the regulation of CSCs in breast
cancer cell lines by niche factors in the tumor microenvironment and developing differential targeting strategies to eradicate breast CSCs.
Because the insertion can be placed so that it interrupts a protein's function, the insertion and repair
system may be useful for producing certain pharmaceuticals or protein products, such as
cancer drugs, in
culture, which would otherwise kill the
cell.
Their three - dimensional
cell -
culture system, adapted for high - throughput screening, has enabled them to identify small molecules that can inhibit adhesion and invasion, preventing ovarian
cancers from spreading to nearby tissues.
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