Journal: Tomography
Article Title: Short-Term Environmental Conditioning Enhances Tumorigenic Potential of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells
doi: 10.18383/j.tom.2019.00019
Figure Lengend Snippet: Conditioning treatments do not alter population-level proliferation or adhesion of cancer cells in cell-based assays. We conditioned MDA-MB-231 cells with EGF (30 ng/mL), ridaforolimus (100 nM), trametinib (100 nM), FBS, or control prior to seeding 10 3 cells per well in a 96-well plate (n ≥ 4 per condition) (A). We normalized bioluminescence on days one and two to corresponding values on day 0 for each group. Graph shows mean + SEM for normalized bioluminescence on day 2 for each condition as a marker of proliferation. * P = .0261 for control versus trametinib by 1-way ANOVA. We conditioned cells with the same treatments listed in (A) and then seeded 2.5 × 10 5 cells per well onto confluent monolayers of human mammary fibroblasts (HMFs) in a 24-well plate (B). We washed off nonadherent cells with PBS after 15 minutes and then quantified the number of adherent breast cancer cells. Graph shows mean + SEM for cells adhering to breast cancer cells for each condition (EGF, 30 ng/mL; ridaforolimus, 100 nM; trametinib, 100 nM; FBS; or control) (n ≥ 10 per condition).
Article Snippet: The next day, we conditioned breast cancer cells by adding FBS (final concentration, 10%), EGF (final concentration, 30 ng/mL or 300 ng/mL as listed in various figure legends) (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN), ridaforolimus (Selleck Chemicals, Houston, TX; final concentration, 10 nM), or trametinib (Selleck Chemicals; final concentration, 100 nM) to their existing media and incubated for 4 hours.
Techniques: Marker