Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: C26 and CT26 colorectal cancer models exhibit divergent cachexia phenotypes, intramuscular inflammation, and protein turnover signaling
doi: 10.64898/2026.04.21.719997
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Subconfluent C2C12 myoblasts cultured in DMEM were plated in the 24-well base plate at 2.5 × 10 4 /cm 2 . C2C12 myoblasts proliferated for four days and were induced to differentiate in differentiation media (DM), DMEM containing 2% horse serum for 72 hours. On the same day of inducing differentiation, C26 cells and CT26 cells were plated in the co-culture inserts at increasing densities (4.17 × 10 4 /cm 2 , 8.3 × 10 4 /cm 2 , and 1.67 × 10 5 /cm 2 ) and proliferated for 72 hours. C2C12 myoblasts were plated in the inserts at 8.3 × 10 4 /cm 2 as a negative co-culture control. Then, the co-culture inserts containing C26, CT26, or C2C12 cells were moved to the lower compartments of the base plate. Fresh DM was added to both inserts and lower compartments. (B) The co-culture continued for 72 hours, and cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) and stained for myosin heavy chain (MyHC, green) and myogenin (MyoG, red). DAPI was used to counterstain the nuclei (blue). Scale bar is set at 200 µm. Myotube diameter (C) , percentage of myotube area (D) , MyoG + /total DAPI + percentage (E) , and total DAPI + cells (F) were quantified to assess potential atrophic effect of C26 cells and CT26 cells. *P<0.05 for pairwise comparison to C2C12 insert control, #P<0.05 for comparison between C26 and CT26 cells.
Article Snippet: The murine skeletal muscle cell line C2C12 (ATCC, CRL-1772) and two colorectal carcinoma cell lines including C26 (a gift from Dr. Keehong Kim at Purdue University) and CT26 (ATCC, CRL-2638) were cultured separately in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium (DMEM, Gibco, 11995-065) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Corning, 35-010-CV) and antibiotics (penicillin 100 U/mL, streptomycin 100 μg/mL, Gibco, 15140-122) at 37 °C in a cell incubator with 5% CO 2 .
Techniques: Cell Culture, Co-Culture Assay, Control, Staining, Comparison