Abstract:
PURPOSE:Multicellular tumour spheroids are being used with increasing frequency in various aspects of tumour biology, including studies dealing with radiation biology. This review attempts to outline recent studies using these three-dimensional systems in radiation biology with particular reference made to papers testing radiotherapeutic protocols with spheroids. DEFINITIONS:Multicellular tumour spheroids are three-dimensional structures composed of cancer cells. They are formed from monolayer tumour cells when these are grown by various in vitro methods (e.g. liquid-overlay, spinner flask and gyratory rotation systems). Because of the cellular organization in spheroids, they have been often shown to recreate in vivo tumours much more closely than two-dimensional in vitro models. CONCLUSIONS:Because of their particular architectural characteristics, multicellular spheroids are demonstrated to be extremely useful in testing radiotherapeutic protocols, including dose rate and fractionation, radioimmunotherapy and the effects of combined treatments (e.g. radiation and anti-neoplastic drugs). Further studies should seek not only to continue testing these protocols, but also to investigate the more fundamental questions of radiation-induced apoptotic cell death, cell-cycle events, cell-cell interactions and cell adhesion phenomena.
journal_name
Int J Radiat Bioljournal_title
International journal of radiation biologyauthors
Santini MT,Rainaldi G,Indovina PLdoi
10.1080/095530099139845subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-07-01 00:00:00pages
787-99issue
7eissn
0955-3002issn
1362-3095journal_volume
75pub_type
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更新日期:1995-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
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