Quantitative heterogeneity and subgroup classification based on motility of breast cancer cells

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab3af4

Abstract

Cancer cell motility and its heterogeneity play an important role in metastasis, which is responsible for death of 90% of cancer patients. Here, in combination with a microfluidic technique, single-cell tracking, and systematic motility analysis, we present a rapid and quantitative approach to judge the motility heterogeneity of breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 in a well-defined three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment with controllable conditions. Following this approach, identification of highly mobile active cells in a medium with epithelial growth factor will provide a practical tool for cell invasion and metastasis investigation of multiple cancer cell types, including primary cells. Further, this approach could potentially become a speedy (~hours) and efficient tool for basic and clinical diagnosis.

Keywords: cancer metastasis motility heterogeneity three-dimensional microenvironment invasion potential

Received: 05 July 2019
Revised: 30 July 2019
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PACS:	87.19.xj	(Cancer)
	87.85.dh	(Cells on a chip)
	87.85.gj	(Movement and locomotion)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11674043 and 11604030), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 2018CDJDWL0011), the Fundamental and Advanced Research Program of Chongqing, China (Grant No. cstc2018jcyjAX0338), and Arizona State University Start-up Funds, USA.

Corresponding Authors: Junle Qu, Liyu Liu
E-mail: jlqu@szu.edu.cn;lyliu@cqu.edu.cn

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Ling Xiong(熊玲), Yanping Liu(刘艳平), Ruchuan Liu(刘如川), Wei Yuan(袁伟), Gao Wang(王高), Yi He(何益), Jianwei Shuai(帅建伟), Yang Jiao(焦阳), Xixiang Zhang(张溪祥), Weijing Han(韩伟静), Junle Qu(屈军乐), Liyu Liu(刘雳宇) Quantitative heterogeneity and subgroup classification based on motility of breast cancer cells 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 108701

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