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高密度共培养肿瘤基质平台的构建方法用于研究癌症进展。

Fabrication Method of a High-Density Co-Culture Tumor-Stroma Platform to Study Cancer Progression.

机构信息

Harrington Department of Bioengineering, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD), Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

出版信息

Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2258:241-255. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1174-6_16.

Abstract

Cancer has now been established as one of the most common chronic diseases due to high mortality rate. The early stage of non-invasive tumors can now be successfully treated leading to have high survival rates; however, the late stage invasive and metastatic tumors still suffer from poor treatment outcomes. Among multiple contributing factors, the role of tumor microenvironment and its complexities has been well recognized in cancer progression. Stromal cells including cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), endothelial cells, adipocytes, immune cells as well as extracellular matrix (ECM) continuously interact with malignant cells and regulate various hallmarks of cancer including tumor growth, invasion, and intravasation. To better understand the role of the interaction between tumor cells and their surrounding microenvironment, numerous model systems ranging from two-dimensional (2D) assays to 3D hydrogels and in vivo murine xenografts have been utilized. While each one of these model systems exhibit certain advantages in studying biological facets of tumor progression, they are often limited to perform well-controlled mechanistic studies due to various factors including lack of tumor-stroma organotypic organization and presence of confounding biochemical and biophysical factors within the tumor microenvironment. In this regard, in the past few years, 3D in vitro microengineered model systems are becoming instrumental to precisely mimic the complexities of the native tumor microenvironment to conduct fundamental and well-designed studies for multiple purposes ranging from biological discovery to therapeutic screening. These model systems include microfluidics, micro-patterned features, and 3D organoids. In this chapter, we will outline the fabrication strategy of our microengineered 3D co-culture tumor-stromal model which comprises high-density array of tumor seeded microwells surrounded by stromal cells, such as CAFs encapsulated within collagen-based hydrogel. The developed platform provides excellent spatial organization of tumor and stromal entities with designated initial architecture and cellular positioning, therefore enabling to study the specific role of cell-cell and cell-ECM interaction on tumor proliferation/expansion, cancer cell migration as well as stromal activation. The developed platform is compatible with standard biological assays enabling gene and protein expression analyses across different types of cancer and co-culture of tumor and stromal cells.

摘要

由于高死亡率,癌症现在已被确认为最常见的慢性疾病之一。现在可以成功治疗非侵入性肿瘤的早期阶段,从而使生存率提高;但是,晚期的侵袭性和转移性肿瘤仍然治疗效果不佳。在多个致病因素中,肿瘤微环境及其复杂性在癌症进展中的作用已得到充分认识。基质细胞包括癌相关成纤维细胞(CAFs)、内皮细胞、脂肪细胞、免疫细胞以及细胞外基质(ECM)不断与恶性细胞相互作用,并调节癌症的各种特征,包括肿瘤生长、侵袭和浸润。为了更好地了解肿瘤细胞与其周围微环境之间相互作用的作用,已经利用了从二维(2D)测定到 3D 水凝胶和体内小鼠异种移植等多种模型系统。尽管这些模型系统中的每一个在研究肿瘤进展的生物学方面都具有某些优势,但由于各种因素,它们通常限于进行良好控制的机制研究,这些因素包括缺乏肿瘤基质器官样组织和肿瘤微环境中存在混杂的生化和生物物理因素。在这方面,在过去的几年中,3D 体外微工程模型系统对于精确模拟天然肿瘤微环境的复杂性变得至关重要,可用于进行从生物学发现到治疗筛选的多种目的的基础和精心设计的研究。这些模型系统包括微流控、微图案特征和 3D 类器官。在本章中,我们将概述我们的微工程 3D 共培养肿瘤基质模型的制造策略,该模型由围绕基质细胞(例如,包裹在胶原基水凝胶中的 CAFs)的高密度肿瘤接种微井阵列组成。所开发的平台提供了肿瘤和基质实体的极好的空间组织,具有指定的初始结构和细胞定位,从而能够研究细胞-细胞和细胞-ECM 相互作用对肿瘤增殖/扩张、癌细胞迁移以及基质激活的特定作用。所开发的平台与标准生物学测定方法兼容,可用于对不同类型的癌症进行基因和蛋白质表达分析,并对肿瘤和基质细胞进行共培养。

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