A 3D biophysical model for cancer spheroid cell-enhanced invasion in collagen-oriented fiber microenvironment*
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Chinese Physics B
- Vol. 29 (9), 098702
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/ab9c02
Abstract
The process ofin situtumors developing into malignant tumors and exhibiting invasive behavior is extremely complicated . From a biophysical point of view, it is a phase change process affected by many factors, including cell-to-cell, cell-to-chemical material, cell-to-environment interaction,etc. In this study, we constructed spheroids based on green fluorescence metastatic breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 to simulate malignant tumorsin vitro, while constructed a three-dimensional (3D) biochip to simulate a micro-environment for the growth and invasion of spheroids. In the experiment, the 3D spheroid was implanted into the chip, and the oriented collagen fibers controlled by collagen concentration and injection rate could guide the MDA-MB-231 cells in the spheroid to undergo directional invasion. The experiment showed that the oriented fibers greatly accelerated the invasion speed of MDA-MB-231 cells compared with the traditional uniform tumor micro-environment, namely obvious invasive branches appeared on the spheroids within 24 hours. In order to analyze this interesting phenomenon, we have developed a quantitative analyzing approach to explore strong angle correlation between the orientation of collagen fibers and invasive direction of cancer cell. The results showed that the oriented collagen fibers produced by the chip can greatly stimulate the invasion potential of cancer cells. This biochip is not only conducive to modeling cancer cell metastasis and studying cell invasion mechanisms, but also has the potential to build a quantitative evaluation platform that can be used in future chemical drug treatments.Keywords
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