Implantable tissue isolation chambers
Implantable tissue isolation chambers for analyzing tumor dynamics in vivo
- Clinical Condition
- Recruitment of new blood vessels is central to tumor progression.
- Studying tumors and normal tissue is experimentally challenging due to rapidly changing events in a short distance and a dense 3D space.
- Current Practice
- Tumor implanted directly in host tissue or in culture.
- No vascular/tumor biology detail.
- Solution
- Partially confined tumors within biocompatible and optically clear tissue isolation chambers.
- Provisional patent.
- Applicability to in vivo
drug testing and cancer research.
