Engineering target tissue in lab-on-a-chip devices for predicting homing choices of metastatic cancer için kapak resmi
Engineering target tissue in lab-on-a-chip devices for predicting homing choices of metastatic cancer
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Engineering target tissue in lab-on-a-chip devices for predicting homing choices of metastatic cancer
Yazar:
Batı Ayaz, Gizem, author.
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Özet:
The metastatic cascade of cancer results in the extravasation of the tumor to other parts of the body. Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer related deaths. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and lung is one of the organs with the most metastasis. For this reason, it is critical to engineer a tissue microenvironment that includes complex cell-cell interactions with co-culture of endothelial, epithelial and stromal cells, and the invasion and extravasation steps of metastasis can be observed for early diagnosis of metastasis. Vascularization is the critical step for engineering the tissues. The in vitro models used today are insufficient to create the tissue environment closest to in vivo conditions. Recently developed lab-on-a-chip platforms provide suitable environments for mimicking the in vivo structure in tissue engineering studies. In this research: -Different lab-on-a-chip devices fabricated to engineer breast and lung target tissues. -For the first time, epithelial, fibroblast and endothelial cells were tri-cultured and breast and lung tissue environments were engineering with microvasculature. -Different gel, media and cell numbers have been optimized for engineering of breast and lung tissue environments with microvascularization. -Different matrix environments have been optimized to observe invasion and/or extravasation steps separately or together.
Tek Biçim Eser Adı:
Thesis (Doctoral)--İzmir Institute of Technology: Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

İzmir Institute of Technology: Biotechnology and Bioengineering--Thesis (Doctoral).
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