Metabolic response of lung cancer cells to radiation in a paper-based 3D cell culture system
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Minn, Kyaw Thu
Mohammady, Marym R.
Boucher, Diane M.
Hall, Amy B.
Hillier, Shawn M.
Udagawa, Taturo
Eustace, Brenda K.
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Simon, Karen A., Bobak Mosadegh, Kyaw Thu Minn, Matthew R. Lockett, Marym R. Mohammady, Diane M. Boucher, Amy B. Hall, et al. 2016. Metabolic Response of Lung Cancer Cells to Radiation in a Paper-Based 3D Cell Culture System. Biomaterials 95: 47–59. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.03.002.Abstract
This work demonstrates the application of a 3D culture system - Cells-in-Gels-in-Paper (CiGiP) - in evaluating the metabolic response of lung cancer cells to ionizing radiation. The 3D tissue-like construct - prepared by stacking multiple sheets of paper containing cell-embedded hydrogels - generates a gradient of oxygen and nutrients that decreases monotonically in the stack. Separating the layers of the stack after exposure enabled analysis of the cellular response to radiation as a function of oxygen and nutrient availability; this availability is dictated by the distance between the cells and the source of oxygenated medium. As the distance between the cells and source of oxygenated media increased, cells show increased levels of hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha, decreased proliferation, and reduced sensitivity to ionizing radiation. Each of these cellular responses are characteristic of cancer cells observed in solid tumors. With this setup we were able to differentiate three isogenic variants of A549 cells based on their metabolic radiosensitivity; these three variants have known differences in their metastatic behavior in vivo. This system can, therefore, capture some aspects of radiosensitivity of populations of cancer cells related to mass-transport phenomenon, carry out systematic studies of radiation response in vitro that decouple effects from migration and proliferation of cells, and regulate the exposure of oxygen to subpopulations of cells in a tissue-like construct either before or after irradiation.Terms of Use
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