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Co-culturing BC Cells: Culturing Breast Cancer Cells with Bone Fragments to Study Cancer Cell Proliferation
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2023
This video describes the culturing of breast cancer cells adjacent to femur bone explants to measure cancer cell proliferation and colonization in a human bone tissue explant model system.
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Models of Bone Metastasis
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2012
Animal models are frequently utilized to study cancer metastasis to bone. In this protocol we will describe two common methods of tumor inoculation for bone metastasis studies and briefly describe some of the analyses utilized to monitor and quantify these models.
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Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cells Generation: A Method to Generate Dendritic Cells from Mouse Bone Marrow
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2023
This video describes a protocol for the generation of dendritic cells--key antigen-presenting cells that activate T cells--from the bone marrow of an adult mouse.
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Multi-modal Imaging of Angiogenesis in a Nude Rat Model of Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Volumetric Computed Tomography and Ultrasound
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2012
In the pathogenesis of bone metastasis, angiogenesis is a crucial process and therefore represents a target for imaging and therapy. Here, we present a rat model of site-specific breast cancer bone metastasis and describe strategies to non-invasively image angiogenesis in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging, volumetric computed tomography and ultrasound.
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Bone Marrow Aspiration: A Method to Obtain Bone Marrow to Examine Cell Morphology
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2023
This video describes the technique of aspirating bone marrow from iliac spine and smear preparation for biopsy. In the example, we perform bone marrow aspiration from an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient and examine the cells to check for measurable residual disease (MRD), an important prognostic biomarker.
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Altered growth signaling can drive continued proliferation, while disrupted control of cell death allows abnormal cells to persist. These changes work together rather than acting independently: increased growth supports expansion, and reduced elimination preserves the expanding population. In bioengineering models, examining both behaviors helps researchers evaluate how the tumor develops and how anticancer treatments affect its growth.
Bone cancer cells do not act in isolation. Their interactions with osteoblasts and osteoclasts can influence bone formation and remodeling, while contacts with blood vessels and immune cells contribute to the surrounding tumor environment. Including these cellular relationships in engineered models provides a broader view of tumor behavior than studying cancer cells alone.
Three-dimensional scaffolds and engineered bone-like tissues reproduce aspects of the tumor microenvironment that conventional two-dimensional cultures represent less realistically. They allow researchers to examine cancer cells alongside biomaterials, matrix-like surroundings, and interacting cell populations. This added context supports investigation of growth, cell–matrix interactions, metastasis, and treatment responses under more biologically representative conditions.
A typical approach is to culture the cells with a selected biomaterial, within a three-dimensional scaffold, or in an engineered bone-like tissue. The resulting construct is then used to study how the cells grow and interact with their surrounding matrix and other relevant cell types. This workflow creates a controllable model for testing tumor behavior and anticancer responses.
These models can be used to examine tumor growth, interactions between cancer cells and the surrounding matrix, metastatic behavior, and responses to anticancer drugs. Because the system can incorporate biomaterials, three-dimensional structure, and bone-related cellular interactions, it connects cellular behavior with features of the tumor microenvironment that are difficult to capture in simpler culture settings.
Bioengineering provides platforms for reproducing aspects of an individual tumor environment and examining how cancer cells respond to anticancer drugs in a structured model. The resulting information may help guide personalized treatment decisions. At the same time, engineered bone-like tissues connect cancer research with regenerative strategies, supporting efforts to understand tumor behavior alongside approaches for rebuilding or restoring bone-related tissue.