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Colorectal cancer derived organotypic spheroids maintain essential tissue characteristics but adapt their metabolism in culture
11 Jul 2014
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BACKGROUND: Organotypic tumor spheroids, a 3D in vitro model derived from patient tumor material, preserve tissue heterogeneity and retain structural tissue elements, thus replicating the in vivo tumor more closely than commonly used 2D and 3D cell line models. Such structures harbour tumorigenic cells, as revealed by xenograft implantation studies in animal models and maintain the genetic makeup of the original...
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