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Advancements in cell cultures are occurring at a rapid pace, an important direction is culturing cells in 3D conditions. We demonstrate the usefulness of agarose hydrogels in obtaining 3 dimensional aggregates of three cell lines, A549, MCF-7 and Sp2/0. The differences in culture phases, susceptibility to cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity are studied. Also, the 3D aggregates of the three cell lines were reverted into 2D cultures and the protein profile differences among the 2D, 3D and revert cultures were studied. The analysis of protein profile differences using UniProt data base further augment the usefulness of agarose hydrogels for obtaining 3D cell cultures.
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We acknowledge the help of Dr. Ganesh Venkatraman, Dr. Suresh Kumar Rayala for their suggestions and Mr. Hemdev along with Mr. Anirudh for helping us with the cell lines and the SDS PAGE analysis.
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Ravi, M., Kaviya, S.R. & Paramesh, V. Culture phases, cytotoxicity and protein expressions of agarose hydrogel induced Sp2/0, A549, MCF-7 cell line 3D cultures. Cytotechnology 68, 429–441 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10616-014-9795-z
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