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Assessing Cell Viability and Death in 3D Spheroid Cultures of Cancer Cells
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Chapters
- 00:04Title
- 00:59Spontaneous Spheroid Formation
- 01:45Reconstituted Basement Membrane-mediated Spheroid Formation
- 03:04Hanging Drop Spheroids
- 04:14Preparing Protein Lysates for Western Blotting from 3D Spheroid Cultures
- 05:21Propidium Iodide (PI) Staining of Spheroids
- 06:27Embedding of Spheroids
- 07:52Results: Assessing Cell Viability and Death
- 09:24Conclusion
Here, we present several simple methods for evaluating viability and death in 3D cancer cell spheroids, which mimic the physico-chemical gradients of in vivo tumors much better than the 2D culture. The spheroid model, therefore, allows evaluation of the cancer drug efficacy with improved translation to in vivo conditions.
