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Multidrug resistance characterization in multicellular tumour spheroids from two human lung cancer cell lines

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Title
Multidrug resistance characterization in multicellular tumour spheroids from two human lung cancer cell lines
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Cancer Cell International, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12935-015-0200-6
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Raúl Barrera-Rodríguez, Jorge Morales Fuentes

Abstract

Most of the knowledge about the mechanisms of multidrug resistance in lung cancer has been achieved through the use of cell lines isolated from tumours cultivated either in suspensions of isolated cells or in monolayers and following exposition to different cytostatic agents. However, tumour cell lines growing as multicellular tumour spheroids (MTS) frequently develop multicellular resistance in a drug-independent form. The aim of this study was to characterize the phenotypic and functional differences between two human NSCLC cell lines (INER-37 and INER-51) grown as traditional monolayer cultures versus as MTS. After 72 hours treatment with anticancer drugs, chemosensitivity in monolayers and tumour spheroids cultures was assessed using MTT assay. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was employed to detect the mRNAs of multidrug resistance-related genes. The expression of P-gp was analyzed by immunohistochemical staining and cell cycle profiles were analyzed using FACS. The results indicate that when grown as MTS each lung cancer cell line had different morphologies as well as and abrogation of cell proliferation with decrease of the G2/M phase. Also, MTS acquired multicellular resistance to several chemotherapeutic agents in only a few days of culture which were accomplished by significant changes in the expression of MDR-related genes. Overall, the MTS culture changed the cellular response to drugs nevertheless each of the cell lines studied seems to implement different mechanisms to acquire multicellular resistance.

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Unknown 48 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 21%
Student > Master 9 19%
Researcher 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 15%
Student > Postgraduate 4 8%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 8 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 10%
Engineering 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 11 23%
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#18,407,102
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#1,088
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#193,301
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#13
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