Advantages and disadvantages of in vitro methods for preclinical drug screening for CRC
Methods | Advantages | Disadvantages | Key types | References |
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2D cell culture system | Simple and low consumption for maintenance; rapid screening; high reproducibility | Require considerable large panel; marked discrepancy with in vivo and clinical studies; lacks in vivo characteristics | NCI60 panel | [51, 52] |
Bodmer group (> 120 CRC cell lines) | [53] | |||
Co-culture of CRC cell lines with CAFs | [54, 55] | |||
Microfluidic based-cell culture system | Low reagent consumption; allow high throughput screening; stable biochemical/concentration gradient; shear stress generation; microvasculature | Lack of representative functional vascular network and heterogeneous phenotype of tumor; present transient effects of cell-drug behavior; not able to withstand long-term experiment; difficult to determine individual cell effect | Microfluidic CRC culture | [56–59] |
Microfluidic co-culture of CRC with fibroblasts | [60, 61] | |||
3D spheroid |
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| Scaffold-free spheroid | [23] |
Co-culture CRC spheroids with fibroblasts | [60, 62–64] | |||
MCTS | [65] | |||
3D organoids |
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| Organoids in Matrigel | [66] |
Organoids in chemically defined synthetic hydrogels | [67] | |||
CTCDO | [68] | |||
PDO | [69–72] | |||
Serrated CRC organoids | [73–77] |
NCI: National Cancer Institute; CTCDO: circulating tumor cells (CTCs)-derived organoids; MCTS: multicellular tumor spheroids; PDO: patient-derived organoid
SSAZ: Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. EAS: Investigation, Writing—original draft. MM: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
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This work was supported by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for Fundamental Research Grant (FRGS) Scheme [FRGS/1/2020/SKK0/USM/03/10]. This work was also supported by the Graduate Student Financial Assistance (GRA Assist) Scheme, USM. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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