Journal
JOURNAL OF TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 1959-1971Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/term.2729
Keywords
breast cancer; breast cancer stem cell (BCSC); micro-environment; multidrug resistance (MDR); three-dimensional (3D) culture
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- Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province [2014023003]
- Liaoning Natural Science Foundation [2014023003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31470952, 31771068, 51373114]
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Multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the major obstacles to improving outcomes of chemotherapy in tumour patients. However, progress has been slow to overcome this phenomenon due to the limitations of current cell/tissue models in recapitulating MDR behaviour of tumour cells in vitro. To address this issue, a more pathologically relevant, three-dimensional (3D) culture of human breast cancer cells was developed by seeding the adriamycin-resistant cells MCF-7R in silk-collagen scaffolds. The cultures of the parental cell line MCF-7 served as controls. Distinct growth profiles of MCF-7R and MCF-7 cells were observed when they were cultured in the scaffolds in comparison with those in the monolayer culture, including cell proliferation, cellular aggregate formation, and expression of drug resistance-related genes/proteins. Moreover, the 3D cultures of these cell lines especially the cultures of MCF-7R exhibited a significantly enhanced drug resistance evidenced by their increased IC50 values to the anticancer drugs and improved drug efflux capability. An altered cell cycle distribution and improved percentage of breast cancer stem cell (BCSC)-like cells was also found in the present study. This might play an important role in promoting the drug-resistance production in those 3D cultures. Thus, we established improved 3D cultures of MDR human breast cancer. It would provide a robust tissue model for use to evaluate the efficacy of anticancer drugs, explore mechanisms of MDR, and enrich BCSCs in vitro.
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