Micro-Platform Reveals Natural Behaviour Of Cancer Cells

Conference name: 2nd International conference on pathology

Short name: Pathology 2019

Venue : Paris,France | July 5-6,2019

URL: https://bit.ly/2GS09CI

The observation shed light on the mechanisms behind well-known properties of pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal malignant tumours, and may lead to the identification of new treatment targets.The researchers created a new cell culture substrate from a coated glass slide with etched islands of 30 µm diameter. For healthy cells, this is just enough space for one or two to attach.

 But when the researchers seeded them with pancreatic cancer cells (and other tumour cells) and incubated them overnight, the cells self-organised into micro-tumours (pictured) that could move in a concerted way, as if it were one organism. Precursors to this turned out to be papillary structures that accommodate four or more cells by cell-in-cell invasion. This process, called entosis, is so far known only as a step in cell degradation, but in this study the incorporated cells remained alive and the incorporation was reversible.

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KRISTIE NOVA
Program Director | PATHOLOGY 2019
Phone: (44) 20 3769 1755
Email: pathology(at)alliedannualsummit(dot)com