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Bioprinted research models of urological malignancy
Wang, Guanyi Mao, Xiongmin Wang, Wang Wang, Xiaolong Li, Sheng Wang, Zijian
Wang, Guanyi
Mao, Xiongmin
Wang, Wang
Wang, Xiaolong
Li, Sheng
Wang, Zijian
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2024-02-20
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https://doi.org/10.1002/exp.20230126
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Urological malignancy (UM) is among the leading threats to health care worldwide. Recent years have seen much investment in fundamental UM research, including mechanistic investigation, early diagnosis, immunotherapy, and nanomedicine. However, the results are not fully satisfactory. Bioprinted research models (BRMs) with programmed spatial structures and functions can serve as powerful research tools and are likely to disrupt traditional UM research paradigms. Herein, a comprehensive review of BRMs of UM is presented. It begins with a brief introduction and comparison of existing UM research models, emphasizing the advantages of BRMs, such as modeling real tissues and organs. Six kinds of mainstream bioprinting techniques used to fabricate such BRMs are summarized with examples. Thereafter, research advances in the applications of UM BRMs, such as culturing tumor spheroids and organoids, modeling cancer metastasis, mimicking the tumor microenvironment, constructing organ chips for drug screening, and isolating circulating tumor cells, are comprehensively discussed. At the end of
this review, current challenges and future development directions of BRMs and UM are highlighted from the perspective of interdisciplinary science.
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G. Wang, X. Mao, W. Wang, X. Wang, S. Li, Z. Wang, Exploration 2024, 4, 20230126. https://doi.org/10.1002/EXP.20230126
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Exploration, Vol. 4, Iss. 4
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