A 3D Spheroid Model as a More Physiological System for Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Differentiation and Invasion In Vitro StudiesAna C. Martins Cavaco 1,2, Johannes A. Eble 1
1Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of Münster, 2Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
The goal of this protocol is to establish a 3D in vitro model to study the differentiation of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in a tumor bulk-like environment, which can be addressed in different analysis systems, such as immunofluorescence, transcriptional analysis and life cell imaging.