Native-mimicking in vitro microenvironment: an elusive and seductive future for tumor modeling and tissue engineering

Abstract Human connective tissues are complex physiological microenvironments favorable for optimal survival, function, growth, proliferation, differentiation, migration, and death of tissue cells. Mimicking native tissue microenvironment using various three-dimensional (3D) tissue culture systems i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Girdhari Rijal, Weimin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Biological Engineering
Subjects:
ECM
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13036-018-0114-7