Journal
BIOENGINEERING-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10111271
Keywords
mechanical; stimuli; loading; prostate; cancer; bone; extracellular; actin; invasion; elongation; metastasis; static; cyclic; EQUicycler; cytoskeleton
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This study investigated the impact of extracellular mechanical stimuli on the metastatic progression of prostate cancer cells within a 3D bone-like microenvironment. It was found that static mechanical stimuli increased the metastasis progression factors in prostate cancer cells.
This study aimed to understand extracellular mechanical stimuli's effect on prostate cancer cells' metastatic progression within a three-dimensional (3D) bone-like microenvironment. In this study, a mechanical loading platform, EQUicycler, has been employed to create physiologically relevant static and cyclic mechanical stimuli to a prostate cancer cell (PC-3)-embedded 3D tissue matrix. Three mechanical stimuli conditions were applied: control (no loading), cyclic (1% strain at 1 Hz), and static mechanical stimuli (1% strain). The changes in prostate cancer cells' cytoskeletal reorganization, polarity (elongation index), proliferation, expression level of N-Cadherin (metastasis-associated gene), and migratory potential within the 3D collagen structures were assessed upon mechanical stimuli. The results have shown that static mechanical stimuli increased the metastasis progression factors, including cell elongation (p < 0.001), cellular F-actin accumulation (p < 0.001), actin polymerization (p < 0.001), N-Cadherin gene expression, and invasion capacity of PC-3 cells within a bone-like microenvironment compared to its cyclic and control loading counterparts. This study established a novel system for studying metastatic cancer cells within bone and enables the creation of biomimetic in vitro models for cancer research and mechanobiology.
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