Role of Mesenchymal-Derived Stem Cells in Stimulating Dormant Tumor Cells to Proliferate and Form Clinical Metastases
Abstract
Tumor metastasis is a complex and often fatal complication of most cancers. One of the biggest challenges to treatment is that prior to diagnosis or during treatment tumor cells can disseminate and remain dormant in distant tissue sites. These cells can become proliferative and lead to metastatic disease late after completion of therapy. The biology of this outbreak of dormant tumor cells that leads to relapsed metastatic disease is the major focus of this grant. Using a fibrosis model of tumor dormancy we have determined the break in dormancy is dependent on collagen and other fibrotic extracellular matrix components for the induction of a proliferative state in these dormant D2.0R breast cancer cell lines. Performing gene expression array on these dormant D2.0R cells exposed to collagen to induce a break from dormancy compared to dormant D2.0R cells revealed a set of genes that overlap with published dormancy gene sets. We also have performed immunophenotyping of the microenvironment of proliferating D2.0R cells in the fibrosis model of tumor dormancy and have identified an expansion of mesenchymal stem cells coincident with this metastatic outgrowth.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1020474
Entities
People
- Jeffrey Green
Organizations
- Geneva Foundation