Journal
BIOENGINEERING-BASEL
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9010028
Keywords
cancer on chip; tumor microenvironment; metastasis; organ on chip; 3D tissue
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Organ on chip (OOC) is a technological breakthrough in biomedical research and drug discovery that replicates the complexity of human organs. Cancer on chip (COC) is a powerful tool for studying oncology, as it can recreate the tumor microenvironment and explore cancer growth and progression.
Organ on chip (OOC) has emerged as a major technological breakthrough and distinct model system revolutionizing biomedical research and drug discovery by recapitulating the crucial structural and functional complexity of human organs in vitro. OOC are rapidly emerging as powerful tools for oncology research. Indeed, Cancer on chip (COC) can ideally reproduce certain key aspects of the tumor microenvironment (TME), such as biochemical gradients and niche factors, dynamic cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, and complex tissue structures composed of tumor and stromal cells. Here, we review the state of the art in COC models with a focus on the microphysiological systems that host multicellular 3D tissue engineering models and can help elucidate the complex biology of TME and cancer growth and progression. Finally, some examples of microengineered tumor models integrated with multi-organ microdevices to study disease progression in different tissues will be presented.
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