Kalaivani Muniandy1, Zuhaida Asra Ahmad1,4, Sylvia Annabel Dass1, Shaharum Shamsuddin2, Nethia Mohana Kumaran3, Venugopal Balakrishnan1,*
Oncologie, Vol.23, No.2, pp. 279-291, 2021, DOI:10.32604/Oncologie.2021.015969
- 22 June 2021
Abstract Spheroids are generally self-assembled cells with the ability to generate their extracellular matrix, including the complex cell-matrix and the cell-cell interactions that resemble the functional characteristics of the corresponding tissue in vivo. The study aimed to develop a three-dimensional (3D) spheroid system for the cervical cancer cell lines, HeLa (HPV18), CaSki (HPV16), SiHa (HPV16), C33A (non-HPV), HT3 (non-HPV) as well as to identify its biological activity in the extracellular form. For the formation of the cervical cancer spheroids, the liquid overlay approach was applied, followed by embedding to the bovine collagen I matrix. Spheroid formation using More >