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MATERIALS TODAY BIO
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100219
关键词
Metastasis-on-a-chip; Breast cancer; Bone metastasis; Sympathetic nervous system; Paracrine
资金
- i3S Scientific Platform Bioimaging [PPBI-POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022122]
- FEDER-Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional funds through the COMPETE 2020-Operacional Programme for Competi-tiveness and Internationalisation (POCI) , Portugal 2020
- FCT/MCTES [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030158, PTDC/MED-PAT/30158/2017]
- VESCEL ERC Advanced Grant [669768]
- [SFRH/BD/128771/2017]
- [SFRH/BPD/115341/2016]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/115341/2016, PTDC/MED-PAT/30158/2017] Funding Source: FCT
- European Research Council (ERC) [669768] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
This study introduced a novel humanized organ-on-a-chip model recapitulating neuro-breast cancer crosstalk in a bone metastatic context. The research revealed that synergistic paracrine signaling from sympathetic neurons and osteoclasts increase breast cancer aggressiveness.
Organ-on-a-chip models have emerged as a powerful tool to model cancer metastasis and to decipher specific crosstalk between cancer cells and relevant regulators of this particular niche. Recently, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) was proposed as an important modulator of breast cancer bone metastasis. However, epidemiological studies concerning the benefits of the SNS targeting drugs on breast cancer survival and recurrence remain controversial. Thus, the role of SNS signaling over bone metastatic cancer cellular processes still requires further clarification. Herein, we present a novel humanized organ-on-a-chip model recapitulating neuro-breast cancer crosstalk in a bone metastatic context. We developed and validated an innovative three-dimensional printing based multi-compartment microfluidic platform, allowing both selective and dynamic multicellular paracrine signaling between sympathetic neurons, bone tropic breast cancer cells and osteoclasts. The selective multicellular crosstalk in combination with biochemical, microscopic and proteomic profiling show that synergistic paracrine signaling from sympathetic neurons and osteoclasts increase breast cancer aggressiveness demonstrated by augmented levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. interleukin-6 and macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha). Overall, this work introduced a novel and versatile platform that could potentially be used to unravel new mechanisms involved in intracellular communication at the bone metastatic niche.
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