期刊
BIOMATERIALS
卷 190, 期 -, 页码 63-75出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.10.014
关键词
Hydrogel; Scaffold; Tumor microenvironment; Ovarian cancer; Mesothelial cells
资金
- Australian Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- Cancer Council Queensland
- Movember Foundation
- Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
- German Research Association
- Queensland University of Technology Mid-Career Researcher Award
- German Academic Exchange Service
Peritoneal invasion through the mesothelial cell layer is a hallmark of ovarian cancer metastasis. Using tissue engineering technologies, we recreated an ovarian tumor microenvironment replicating this aspect of disease progression. Ovarian cancer cell-laden hydrogels were combined with mesothelial cell-layered melt electrospun written scaffolds and characterized with proliferation and transcriptomic analyses and used as intraperitoneal xenografts. Here we show increased cancer cell proliferation in these 3D co-cultures, which we validated using patient-derived cells and linked to peritoneal tumor growth in vivo. Transcriptome-wide expression analysis identified IGFBP7, PTGS2, VEGFC and FGF2 as bidirectional factors deregulated in 3D co-cultures compared to 3D mono-cultures, which we confirmed by immunohistochemistry of xenograft and patient-derived tumor tissues and correlated with overall and progression-free survival. These factors were further increased upon expression of kallikrein-related proteases. This clinically predictive model allows us to mimic the complexity and processes of the metastatic disease that may lead to therapies that protect from peritoneal invasion or delay the development of metastasis.
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