Abstract
Despite significant improvements in ways to treat cancer, numerous patients still die from this disease. One of the reasons for this inability to cure cancer is the lack of ability of drugs to penetrate target cells properly. While studies on drug resistance have focused on the molecular mechanisms of single cells, there has been little attention on drug penetration or distribution in solid tumor tissues. It is reported that the factors that obstruct the penetration and distribution of drugs in solid tumors are closely related to the microenvironment of solid tumors. This review paper aims to discuss the microenvironment that hinders drug penetration in solid tumors and to investigate whether or not changes in the microenvironment can improve drug penetration. This review also introduces in vitro 3D multicellular culture systems that can reproduce the characteristics of solid tumors in vivo and that are required for such studies.
Keywords: Tumor environment, drug penetration, drug distribution, 3-D multicellular culture system
Current Drug Discovery Technologies
Title: The Reciprocal Interaction: Chemotherapy and Tumor Microenvironment
Volume: 8 Issue: 2
Author(s): Soo-Hyun Kim, Hyo-Jeong Kuh and Crispin R. Dass
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Keywords: Tumor environment, drug penetration, drug distribution, 3-D multicellular culture system
Abstract: Despite significant improvements in ways to treat cancer, numerous patients still die from this disease. One of the reasons for this inability to cure cancer is the lack of ability of drugs to penetrate target cells properly. While studies on drug resistance have focused on the molecular mechanisms of single cells, there has been little attention on drug penetration or distribution in solid tumor tissues. It is reported that the factors that obstruct the penetration and distribution of drugs in solid tumors are closely related to the microenvironment of solid tumors. This review paper aims to discuss the microenvironment that hinders drug penetration in solid tumors and to investigate whether or not changes in the microenvironment can improve drug penetration. This review also introduces in vitro 3D multicellular culture systems that can reproduce the characteristics of solid tumors in vivo and that are required for such studies.
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Kim Soo-Hyun, Kuh Hyo-Jeong and R. Dass Crispin, The Reciprocal Interaction: Chemotherapy and Tumor Microenvironment, Current Drug Discovery Technologies 2011; 8 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016311795563875
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016311795563875 |
Print ISSN 1570-1638 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-6220 |
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