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ReviewCancers2021

The Role of Biomimetic Hypoxia on Cancer Cell Behaviour in 3D Models: A Systematic Review.

Ye Liu, Zahra Mohri, Wissal Alsheikh, Umber Cheema

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Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Ye LiuUCL Centre for 3D models of Health and Disease, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Zahra MohriMedical Biosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK.
Wissal AlsheikhUCL Centre for 3D models of Health and Disease, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Umber CheemaUCL Centre for 3D models of Health and Disease, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of biomimetic, human tissue models is recognized as being an important step for transitioning in vitro research findings to the native in vivo response. Oftentimes, 2D models lack the necessary complexity to truly recapitulate cellular responses. The introduction of physiological features into 3D models informs us of how each component feature alters specific cellular response. We conducted a systematic review of research papers where the focus was the introduction of key biomimetic features into in vitro models of cancer, including 3D culture and hypoxia. We analysed outcomes from these and compiled our findings into distinct groupings to ascertain which biomimetic parameters correlated with specific responses. We found a number of biomimetic features which primed cancer cells to respond in a manner which matched in vivo response.

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3Dcancer modelscancer stem cellsdrug resistanceepithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionhypoxiainvasionmigration

Identifiers

PMID33809554
PMCPMC7999912

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