同時目前體外腫瘤培養系統很難還原體內腫瘤微環境的復雜性,手術活檢取得到腫瘤樣本又過少不足以支持相關檢測和研究【3】。被Nature Methods評為Method of the Year 2017的類器官培養技術則為體外原位模擬腫瘤免疫微環境提供了技術支持【4】。
近日,來自美國斯坦福大學的Calvin J. Kuo研究組,在Cell雜志上以長文形式發表了題為Organoid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment的論文(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.021),通過氣液交互(air-liquid interface,ALI)患者來源類器官培養技術(Patient-derived Organoids,PDOs)重現了患者腫瘤免疫微環境。
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