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ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017

Tumour-on-a-chip: microfluidic models of tumour morphology, growth and microenvironment.

Hsieh-Fu Tsai, Alen Trubelja, Amy Q Shen, Gang Bao

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Review in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers.

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106citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed.

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46 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Hsieh-Fu TsaiMicro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8652-4643
Alen TrubeljaDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Amy Q ShenMicro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan amy.shen@oist.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-1222-6264
Gang BaoDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030, USA gang.bao@rice.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5501-554X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death, albeit enormous efforts to cure the disease. To overcome the major challenges in cancer therapy, we need to have a better understanding of the tumour microenvironment (TME), as well as a more effective means to screen anti-cancer drug leads; both can be achieved using advanced technologies, including the emerging tumour-on-a-chip technology. Here, we review the recent development of the tumour-on-a-chip technology, which integrates microfluidics, microfabrication, tissue engineering and biomaterials research, and offers new opportunities for building and applying functional three-dimensional

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HumansMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicrofluidicsMicrotechnologyModels, BiologicalNeoplasmsTissue Engineeringdrug screeningmicrofluidicstumour microenvironmenttumour-on-a-chip

Identifiers

PMID28637915
PMCPMC5493797

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