Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Adv Healthc Mater. 2023 Jun;12(14):e2201784. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202201784. Epub 2022 Nov 15.
Previous studies have developed vascularized tumor spheroid models to demonstrate the impact of intravascular flow on tumor progression and treatment. However, these models have not been widely adopted so the vascularization of tumor spheroids in vitro is generally lower than vascularized tumor tissues in vivo. To improve the tumor vascularization level, a new strategy is introduced to form tumor spheroids by adding fibroblasts (FBs) sequentially to a pre-formed tumor spheroid and demonstrate this method with tumor cell lines from kidney, lung, and ovary cancer. Tumor spheroids made with the new strategy have higher FB densities on the periphery of the tumor spheroid, which tend to enhance vascularization. The vessels close to the tumor spheroid made with this new strategy are more perfusable than the ones made with other methods. Finally, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are perfused under continuous flow into vascularized tumor spheroids to demonstrate immunotherapy evaluation using vascularized tumor-on-a-chip model. This new strategy for establishing tumor spheroids leads to increased vascularization in vitro, allowing for the examination of immune, endothelial, stromal, and tumor cell responses under static or flow conditions.
先前的研究已经开发出血管化肿瘤球体模型,以证明血管内流动对肿瘤进展和治疗的影响。然而,这些模型并未得到广泛采用,因此体外肿瘤球体的血管化程度通常低于体内血管化肿瘤组织。为了提高肿瘤血管化水平,引入了一种新策略,通过将成纤维细胞(FBs)依次添加到预先形成的肿瘤球体中来形成肿瘤球体,并使用来自肾癌、肺癌和卵巢癌的肿瘤细胞系来证明这种方法。使用新策略形成的肿瘤球体在肿瘤球体的外围具有更高的 FB 密度,这有助于增强血管化。与使用其他方法形成的肿瘤球体相比,使用这种新策略形成的靠近肿瘤球体的血管更易灌注。最后,嵌合抗原受体(CAR)T 细胞在持续流动下被灌注到血管化肿瘤球体中,以使用血管化肿瘤芯片模型来评估免疫疗法。这种建立肿瘤球体的新策略导致体外血管化增加,允许在静态或流动条件下检查免疫、内皮、基质和肿瘤细胞反应。
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