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Engineered Microphysiological Systems for Testing Effectiveness of Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapies

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dc.creator Campisi, Marco
dc.creator Shelton, Sarah E.
dc.creator Chen, Minyue
dc.creator Kamm, Roger D.
dc.creator Barbie, David A.
dc.creator Knelson, Erik H.
dc.date 2022-07-25T18:47:10Z
dc.date 2022-07-25T18:47:10Z
dc.date 2022-07-22
dc.date 2022-07-25T16:32:36Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:17:40Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:17:40Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144036
dc.identifier Cancers 14 (15): 3561 (2022)
dc.identifier PUBLISHER_CC
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242519
dc.description Cell therapies, including adoptive immune cell therapies and genetically engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T or NK cells, have shown promise in treating hematologic malignancies. Yet, immune cell infiltration and expansion has proven challenging in solid tumors due to immune cell exclusion and exhaustion and the presence of vascular barriers. Testing next-generation immune therapies remains challenging in animals, motivating sophisticated ex vivo models of human tumor biology and prognostic assays to predict treatment response in real-time while comprehensively recapitulating the human tumor immune microenvironment (TIME). This review examines current strategies for testing cell-based cancer immunotherapies using ex vivo microphysiological systems and microfluidic technologies. Insights into the multicellular interactions of the TIME will identify novel therapeutic strategies to help patients whose tumors are refractory or resistant to current immunotherapies. Altogether, these microphysiological systems (MPS) have the capability to predict therapeutic vulnerabilities and biological barriers while studying immune cell infiltration and killing in a more physiologically relevant context, thereby providing important insights into fundamental biologic mechanisms to expand our understanding of and treatments for currently incurable malignancies.
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dc.publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers14153561
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.title Engineered Microphysiological Systems for Testing Effectiveness of Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapies
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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