Microfluidic one-directional interstitial flow generation from cancer to cancer associated fibroblast
- Authors
- Kim, Jaehoon; Park, Hyejin; Kim, Hyunho; Kim, YongTae; Oh, Hyun Jeong; Chung, Seok
- Issue Date
- 5월-2022
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- Interstitial flow; Microfluidic device; Tumor stroma; Fibroblast
- Citation
- ACTA BIOMATERIALIA, v.144, pp.258 - 265
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
- Volume
- 144
- Start Page
- 258
- End Page
- 265
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/142272
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.03.044
- ISSN
- 1742-7061
- Abstract
- Tumors, unlike normal tissue, have vascular anomalies and create interstitial flow (IF), which allows soluble substances from cancer cells to be transported directionally toward the tumor stroma. In the stroma, IF activates fibroblasts. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are formed from stimulated cells and aid cancer growth. A microfluidic device was designed to generate a one-directional flow of a small volume mimicking IF from donor cells to recipient at steady-state conditions only based on the medium evaporation from reservoirs with different diameter. The IF carried substances from donor cells, which stimulated the activation of fibroblasts on the receiving side, as well as their migration and stellate formation. Matrix metallopeptidases 9 and 14 as well as CAF markers such as fibroblast activation protein alpha, vimentin, and alpha-smooth muscle actin are abundantly expressed in the migrating fibroblasts. The created platform mimicked one-directional delivery in tumor stroma. This will allow researchers to investigate how cancer cells activate and differentiate stromal cells.
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