Journal: Cancer research
Article Title: Netrin-1 Promotes Pancreatic Tumorigenesis and Innervation through NEO1
doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-25-2243
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Experimental scheme showing the transduction of Adenovirus-Cre or -empty to pancreatic organoids isolated from LSL-Kras G12D/+ mice. d, day. Adeno, adenovirus. Scale bar, 20 μm. (B) qRT-PCR for axon guidance molecules and neurotrophins using the pancreatic organoids. n = 7 mice. A.U., arbitrary units. Two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-tests. (C) qRT-PCR for Ntn1 using pancreatic tissues from wild-type (WT), Pdx1-Cre; LSL-Kras G12D/+ (KC), and Pdx1-Cre; LSL-Kras G12D/+ ; LSL-Trp53 R172H/+ (KPC) mice. n = 4 mice each. One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc multiple comparison tests. (D) Co-immunofluorescence (Co-IF) for NTN1 and CK19 (a duct marker) and quantification of the ratio of NTN1 + cells in CK19 + ductal cells. Normal pancreas from WT mice and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN1, 2, and 3) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) areas from KPC mice were evaluated. The inset shows a magnified view of normal ductal cells lacking NTN1 + signals. n = 4 mice each. One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc multiple comparison tests. Scale bars, 100 μm. (E) qRT-PCR for NTN1 receptors using pancreatic tissues from WT, KC, and KPC mice. n = 4 mice each. One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc multiple comparison tests. (F) Co-immunofluorescence for NEO1 and CK19 and quantification of the ratio of NEO1 + cells in CK19 + ductal cells. Normal pancreas from WT mice and PanIN and PDAC areas from KPC mice were evaluated. The inset shows a magnified view of normal ductal cells lacking NEO1 + signals. n = 4 mice each. One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc multiple comparison tests. Scale bars, 100 μm. (G) Co-immunofluorescence for NTN1 and CK19 using human normal pancreas and PDAC tissues. CK19 + ductal areas are magnified in the insets. n = 12 patients with PDAC. Two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-test. Scale bars, 50 μm. (H) The expression of NTN1 and NEO1 in bulk RNA-sequencing data using human pancreatic tissues. n = 165 (normal) and 178 patients (PDAC). The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) datasets were analyzed. FPKM, fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads. Two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-tests. In all figures, bar graphs show mean ± s.e.m (standard error of the mean), and asterisks denote the following P-values. ****, P-value < 0.0001; ***, P-value of 0.0001 to 0.001; **, P-value of 0.001 to 0.01; *, P-value of 0.01 to 0.05; ns, P-value ≥ 0.05. A , Created in BioRender. Wu, F. (2025) https://BioRender.com/mlrkrl8
Article Snippet: Immunohistochemistry for NTN1 and NEO1 were performed using the chicken polyclonal anti-NTN1 antibody (NB100-1605, Novus, 1:200, RRID: AB_2298756) and the goat polyclonal anti-NEO1 antibody (AF1079, R&D, 1:200, RRID: AB_2151002). (A) Experimental scheme showing the transduction of Adenovirus-Cre or -empty to pancreatic organoids isolated from LSL-Kras G12D/+ mice. d, day.
Techniques: Transduction, Isolation, Quantitative RT-PCR, Two Tailed Test, Comparison, Immunofluorescence, Marker, Expressing, RNA Sequencing