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. 2019 Oct 4;10:4529. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12420-1

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Versatile 3D bioengineered brain tumor tissue model. Multi-level interrogation into the role of extracellular matrix and microenvironment on tumor growth. Middle panel—Tumor cells seeded as single cells post dissociation from the excised tumor, migrate as single cells towards the central hydrogel window or revert back to sphere-like morphology within the scaffold depending on original tumor characteristics. Left panel—Introduction of suitable ECM and soluble cues to maintain tumor characteristics and drug screening. Right panel—Multiscale interrogation of the culture system via transcriptomic and genomic profiling, and live metabolic imaging. Co-culture of tumor cells with healthy differentiated human neural stem cells (hNSCs)