Full Description
3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications is an all-encompassing guide covering both fundamentals concerning biofabrication principles and intricate protocols for precise construction of biomimetric 3D systems supporting advanced cell culture development that faithfully recapitulates human disease hallmarks, with a special focus on cancer. This title fills the void left by existing publications overlooking essential aspects associated with combining multimodal medical imaging alongside precision cancer treatment options. In 12 chapters 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications leads the reader from an introduction to bioprinting technologies for cancer models, to models for immunotherapy and tumour-immune interaction, to biomimetrics 3D models to the applications of all these models in 3D bioprinted cancer models . 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications uniquely combines distinct modalities under a unified framework suitable not only for seasoned veterans but also newly minted trainees encountering these sophisticated practices for the first time.
Contents
1. Hydrogel-microfluidic devices for 3D cell culture
2. Hydrogel-patterning technique for 3D cell culture
3. Scaffold-based 3D cellular models in cancer tissue engineering
4. Bioinformatics approaches for the validation of functional analysis of
3D cancer models
5. Multidimensional liquid patterning for 3D microtissue engineering
6. Injection-molded plastic array three-dimensional universal culture
platform for various biological applications
7. 3D cell-culture microfluidic devices for tumor microenvironment biomarker
profiling
8. 3D bioprinting for recapitulation of tumor microenvironment
9. 3D bioprinted models for antiangiogenic drug screening and validation
10. 3D bioprinting technology in cancer management: Applications,
challenges, and future perspectives
11. Three dimensional bioprinted models for drug screening cancer
metastasis and prognosis study
12. 3D bioprinted cancer model for anticancer drug testing
13. 3D-printed scaffolds using cellulose nanofibrils
14. Integration of 3D bioprinting and microfluidics