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Directed movement toward, translocation along, penetration into and exit from vascular networks by breast cancer cells in 3D
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Directed movement toward, translocation along, penetration into and exit from vascular networks by breast cancer cells in 3D

Deborah J Wessels, Claude Pujol, Nikash Pradhan, Daniel F Lusche, Luis Gonzalez, Sydney E Kelly, Elizabeth M Martin, Edward R Voss, Yang-Nim Park, Michael Dailey, …
Cell adhesion & migration, Vol.15(1), pp.224-248
01/01/2021
DOI: 10.1080/19336918.2021.1957527
PMCID: PMC8331046
PMID: 34338608
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Abstract

We developed a computer-assisted platform using laser scanning confocal microscopy to 3D reconstruct in real-time interactions between metastatic breast cancer cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). We demonstrate that MB-231 cancer cells migrate toward HUVEC networks, facilitated by filopodia, migrate along the network surfaces, penetrate into and migrate within the HUVEC networks, exit and continue migrating along network surfaces. The system is highly amenable to 3D reconstruction and computational analyses, and assessments of the effects of potential anti-metastasis monoclonal antibodies and other drugs. We demonstrate that an anti-RHAMM antibody blocks filopodium formation and all of the behaviors that we found take place between MB-231 cells and HUVEC networks.
CD44 computer-assisted reconstruction extravasation Filopodia intravasation pseudopod RHAMM

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