NDLI: Robotic printing and drug testing of 384-well tumor spheroids

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Author	Ham, S.L. Thakuri, P.S. Tavana, H.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Biomed. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH, USA (Ham, S.L.; Thakuri, P.S.; Tavana, H.)
Abstract	A major impediment to anti-cancer drug development is the lack of a reliable and inexpensive tumor model to test the efficacy of candidate compounds. This need has emerged due to the insufficiency of widely-used monolayer cultures to predict drug efficacy in vivo. Spheroids, 3D compact clusters of cancer cells, mimic important characteristics of tumors and provide a tissue analog for drug testing. Here we present a novel spheroid formation microtechnology that is simple to use and allows high throughput drug screening in 384-microwell plates. This approach is based on a polymeric aqueous two-phase system. The denser aqueous phase is mixed with cancer cells at a desired density. Using a robotic liquid handler, a drop of this cell suspension is dispensed into each well of a 384-microwell plate containing the second, immersion aqueous phase. Cancer cells remain contained in the drop, which rests on the well bottom, and form a spheroid during incubation. The use of liquid handling robotics ensures precise dispensing of a single drop, resulting in a single spheroid per well and homogenously sized spheroids within each plate. We confirmed the consistency of production of spheroids and demonstrated their biological relevance to tumors. A proof of concept study with spheroids of triple negative breast cancer cells treated with a standard chemotherapeutic compound, doxorubicin, showed the potential of this method for drug testing. This spheroid culture microtechnology presents key advantages over existing methods such as the ease of drug and viability reagent addition, ability to analyze spheroids without transferring them to a new plate, and the elimination of the need for specialized plates or devices to form spheroids. Incorporating this technology in anti-cancer drug development pipeline will help examine the efficacy of drug candidates more effectively and expedite discovery of novel drugs.
Starting Page	2183
Ending Page	2186
File Size	3076840
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781424492718
DOI	10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318823
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-08-25
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Drugs Tumors Cancer Robots Standards Compounds Three-dimensional displays
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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