Article
Three-Dimensional In Vitro Skin and Skin Cancer Models Based on Human Fibroblast-Derived Matrix.
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods - 1 Sept 2015
Berning Manuel, Prätzel-Wunder Silke, Bickenbach Jackie R, Boukamp Petra
Abstract excerpt
Three-dimensional in vitro skin and skin cancer models help to dissect epidermal-dermal and tumor-stroma interactions. In the model presented here, normal human dermal fibroblasts isolated from adult skin self-assembled into dermal equivalents with their specific fibroblast-derived matrix (fdmDE) over 4 weeks. The fdmDE represented a complex human extracellular matrix that was stabilized by its own heterogeneous...
Topics
- Cell Count
- Dermis
- Disease Progression
- Epidermal Cells
- Epithelium
- Extracellular Matrix
- Fibroblasts
- Humans
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Keratinocytes
- Matrix Metalloproteinases
- Models, Biological
- Neoplasms, Squamous Cell
- Phenotype
- Skin
- Skin Neoplasms
- Skin, Artificial
