Cited by 7243D Printing in Biomedical ResearchCancer Cells and MetastasisCellular Mechanics and Interactions

Human 3D vascularized organotypic microfluidic assays to study breast cancer cell extravasation

Open access
Jeon, Jessie S., Bersini, Simone, Gilardi, Mara, Dubini, Gabriele, Charest, Joseph L., Moretti, Matteo, Kamm, Roger D.·2015·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Significance: The cancer biology seed-and-soil paradigm recognizes the existence of organ-specific patterns of metastasization that drive the spread of selected primary tumors toward specific secondary loci. However, despite efforts to model the organotypic microenvironment, the organ specificity of cancer metastases needs to be elucidated. The relevance of this study lies in the generation of a human vascularized organ-specific microenvironment, which can be used to investigate and tune the extravasation process of metastatic tumor cells. Furthermore, beyond mimicking the pro- or antimetastatic signatures of different microenvironments, our microfluidic model provides insights into different properties of organ-specific endothelia. This study paves the way toward advanced in vitro models to screen for highly tailored organ-specific therapeutics and investigate key molecular pathways involved in organ-specific metastases.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1073/pnas.1417115112

Cites

44 of 44 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Adenosine played an important role in promoting tumor cell extravasation.

    “Through this, it was shown that adenosine played an important role in promoting tumor cells extravasation.”

    From Microfluidic modelling of the tumor microenvironment for anti-cancer drug development (2019) · cites this paper as [98]

    The Results (p. 5) report that adding adenosine significantly reduced cancer cell extravasation, from 56.5% to 12.7%, rather than promoting it. The Fig. 3 caption (p. 6) confirms that extravasation decreased with adenosine. (LLM, conf=0.94)

    Checked by a reasoning model — may be wrong.

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • In a model where MDA-MB-231 suspension was flowed into a vascular network to model extravasation, blocking A3 adenosine receptors reduced the extravasation rate of cancer cells.

    “By blocking A3 adenosine receptors, cancer cells were observed to have a reduced extravasation rate.”

    From Microfluidic modelling of the tumor microenvironment for anti-cancer drug development (2019) · cites this paper as [98]

    The Results (p. 5) report the opposite effect: blocking A3 adenosine receptors with PSB-10 significantly increased cancer cell extravasation in C2C12-containing matrices, from 8.2 ± 2.3% to 32.4 ± 7.7%. The Fig. 3 caption (p. 6) also states that extravasation increased with receptor blockade. (LLM, conf=0.95)

    Checked by a reasoning model — may be wrong.

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Endothelial cells in a 3D microvascular network displayed morphological features similar to in vivo conditions, contrasting with poorly aligned cells grown in 2D cultures or deprived of flow.

    “Endothelial cells displayed morphological features similar to in vivo conditions, contrasting to poorly aligned cells grown in 2D cultures or deprived of fl ow.”
  • The microfluidic device promoted perfusable culture of four different cell types and proved to be an appropriate platform for monitoring cancer cell extravasation in real time.

    “This micro fl uidic device not only promoted the perfusable culture of four different cells types but also proved to be an appropriate platform for monitoring cancer cell extravasation in real time.”
  • Adenosine inhibits extravasation, as blocking A3 adenosine receptors increased extravasation rates of breast cancer cells into myoblast-mimicking microenvironments compared with untreated cells.

    “The results indicated inhibitory role of adenosine on extravasation as blocking A3 adenosine receptors increased extravasation rates of breast cancer cells into the myoblast, mimicking microenvironments compared with untreated cells [57].”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Jeon, J. S., Bersini, S., Gilardi, M., Dubini, G., Charest, J. L., Moretti, M., & Kamm, R. D.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio (IT)
  • Politecnico di Milano (IT)
  • Draper Laboratory (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2014-12-18
Volume
112
Issue
1
Pages
214-219
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2081560083
Cited by
723
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 28 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 71 · 2022: 79 · 2021: 85 · 2020: 83 · 2019: 71 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 59 · 2016: 52 · 2015: 21
FWCI
22.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R33 CA174550-01, R21 CA140096)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Keywords
breast cancer, tumor cell extravasation, organ-specific metastasis, microvascular permeability, A3 adenosine receptor, drug screening, personalized medicine
MeSH terms
Adenosine, Animals, Breast Neoplasms, Capillary Permeability, Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials, Female, Humans, Stress, Mechanical, Shear Strength, Microfluidics, Cell Line, Tumor, Mice, Microvessels, Cellular Microenvironment, Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review