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Engineering Three-dimensional Epithelial Tissues Embedded within Extracellular Matrix
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2016
This manuscript describes a soft lithography-based technique to engineer uniform arrays of three-dimensional (3D) epithelial tissues of defined geometry surrounded by extracellular matrix. This method is amenable to a wide variety of cell types and experimental contexts and allows for high-throughput screening of identical replicates.
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Embedding Drosophila Brain in a Matrix for Time-Lapse Imaging of the Circadian Clock Neurons
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2025
Source: Sabado, V., et al., Nagoshi, E. Single-cell Resolution Fluorescence Live Imaging of Drosophila Circadian Clocks in Larval Brain Culture. J. Vis. Exp. (2018). This video demonstrates the procedure to embed the Drosophila brain in a fibrin matrix, followed by time-lapse fluorescence imaging of circadian clock neurons to analyze rhythmic activity synchronized with light/dark cycles.
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Microgel-Extracellular Matrix Composite Support for the Embedded 3D Printing of Human Neural Constructs
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2023
This work describes a protocol for the freeform embedded 3D printing of neural stem cells inside self-healing annealable particle-extracellular matrix composites. The protocol enables the programmable patterning of interconnected human neural tissue constructs with high fidelity.
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Yeast Colony Embedding Method
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2011
A method for embedding yeast colonies allowing sectioning for light and electron microscopy. This protocol allows determination of the distribution of sporulated cells and pseudohyphal cells within colonies providing a new tool toward understanding the organization of cell types within a fungal community.
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Probing C84-embedded Si Substrate Using Scanning Probe Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics
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2016
This paper reports the nanomaterial fabrication of a fullerene Si substrate inspected and verified by nanomeasurements and molecular dynamic simulation.
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Matrix stiffness can alter how embedded cancer cells grow, organize, migrate, and invade. The material also provides biochemical signals, while cells can remodel the surrounding matrix rather than simply occupying a passive scaffold. These interacting physical and biological cues make the culture useful for examining how environmental properties regulate tumor behavior.
Cell–matrix interactions help preserve features of tumor architecture that are often reduced in flat cultures. Within the three-dimensional material, cells or organoids can develop organization while responding to local signals and matrix remodeling. This makes matrix embedding valuable for connecting cellular behavior with tissue-like structure and for studying cancer progression in a more physiologically relevant setting.
Compared with two-dimensional culture, matrix embedding adds a three-dimensional environment in which stiffness, biochemical signals, and remodeling can influence responses. That difference matters when researchers examine migration, invasion, or treatment sensitivity, because the surrounding material can shape behavior. The method therefore complements, rather than simply replaces, simpler flat-culture experiments.
An embedded culture begins by placing cells, organoids, or tissue within an extracellular matrix or hydrogel. The supportive material surrounds the biological sample and supplies the context in which growth, organization, migration, invasion, and remodeling can be observed. Researchers can then use the resulting three-dimensional model to assess behavior under matrix-associated conditions.
Researchers apply matrix-embedded cultures to investigate cancer progression and the cellular behaviors associated with invasion and metastasis. Because the model preserves aspects of tissue architecture and cell–matrix interaction, it can connect changes in the surrounding environment with movement through the matrix. This supports mechanistic studies of how tumors acquire more aggressive characteristics.
Drug-response studies can use these cultures to test how a three-dimensional tumor-like environment affects treatment sensitivity. Matrix stiffness, biochemical signals, and cell-mediated remodeling may influence the observed response, so outcomes can reveal environmental contributions that are less apparent in two-dimensional systems. The approach is therefore relevant when evaluating therapies in the context of the tumor microenvironment.