Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up: An Open Microfluidic Microtumor Model for Investigating Tumor Cell-ECM Interaction and Anti-Metastasis (Small 9/2025)
Chao Li, Jiayi Li, Zach Argall-Knapp, Nathan W. Hendrikse, Mehtab A. Farooqui, Bella Raykowski, Anna King, Serratt Nong, Yingguang Liu
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Abstract
Microtumor Model
By leveraging an exclusive liquid repellency (ELR)-underoil open microfluidic system (UOMS), an open microfluidics-based microtumor model for studying tumor cell migration in an in vivo-like confined space and interaction with extracellular matrix was developed. The UOMS microtumor model was tested with the anti-metastatic effect of incyclinide, showing the potential as an ex vivo platform for micrometastasis study and anti-metastasis drug screening. More in article number 2402499, Chao Li, Yingguang Liu, and co-workers.
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