作者: Stephen J. Florczyk , Gang Liu , Forrest M. Kievit , Allison M. Lewis , Jennifer D. Wu
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摘要: The treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) remains palliative. Immunotherapy offers a potentially effective therapy for CRPC; however, its advancement into the clinic has been slow, in part because lack representative vitro tumor models that resemble vivo microenvironment studying interactions CRPC cells with immune and other potential therapeutics. This study evaluates use 3D porous chitosan-alginate (CA) scaffolds culturing human (PCa) cell interaction peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) ex vivo. CA Matrigel matrix samples supported spheroid formation over 15 days culture, live fluorescence imaging confocal microscopy using stably transfected PCa 55 days. grown were co-cultured PBLs 2 6 evaluated scanning electron (SEM), immunohistochemistry (IHC), flow cytometry. Both tumors, providing more robust platform subsequent analyses. demonstrates natural polymer as tissue culture model supporting long-term analysis cells, an rapid immunotherapy development.