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An in vitro tumor-fibroblast interaction model of human oral squamous cell carcinoma
BMC Proceedings volume 4, Article number: P32 (2010)
Carcinoma associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have recently been implicated in neoplastic progression, tumor growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis. This special fibroblast subpopulation plays a major role in initiation of tumor progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
We established a co-culture model of SCC-25 lingual squamous cell carcinoma cells and periodontal ligament fibroblasts. Gene expression changes were analyzed by real-time PCR, western blot and immunocytochemistry. During 7 days’ co-culture CAFs were converted from normal fibroblasts showing sustained expression of stroma-derived factor. We found that CAFs produced experimentally within such a short time, induced epithelial-mesenchymal transdifferentiation (EMT) of SCC-25 cells in co-culture. EMT-SCC-25 cells showed increased expression of vimentin and the transcription factor snail, and decreased expression of E-cadherin.
These results indicated that CAF-conversion of oral fibroblasts and EMT of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells are coordinated events and could be reliably modeled in vitro.
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Dudás, J., Bitsche, M., Schartinger, V. et al. An in vitro tumor-fibroblast interaction model of human oral squamous cell carcinoma. BMC Proc 4 (Suppl 2), P32 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-4-S2-P32
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-4-S2-P32