Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Invasion-promoting extracellular matrix composition enhances photodynamic therapy response in 3D pancreatic cancer models

  • University of Massachusetts Boston

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by extracellular matrix-rich stromal involvement, but it is not clear how ECM properties that affect invasiveness and chemotherapy response influence efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT). To disentangle the mechanical and biochemical effects of ECM composition, we measured the effects of various combinations of ECM proteins on growth behavior, invasive potential, and therapeutic response of multicellular 3D pancreatic tumor models. These spheroids were grown in attachment-free conditions before embedding in combinations of rheologically characterized collagen 1 and Matrigel combinations and treated with oxaliplatin chemotherapy and PDT. We find that cells invading from collagen-embedded tumor spheroids, the least rigid ECM substrate described here, displayed better response to PDT than to oxaliplatin chemotherapy. Overall, our results support that ECM-mediated invading PDAC populations remain responsive to PDT in conditions that induce chemoresistance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection
Subtitle of host publicationMechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXVI
EditorsDavid H. Kessel, Tayyaba Hasan
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510605350
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventOptical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXVI - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Jan 28 2017 → Jan 29 2017

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume10047
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceOptical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXVI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period1/28/17 → 1/29/17

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Biomaterials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

Keywords

  • 3D tumor models
  • extracellular matrix
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • photodynamic therapy
  • tumor microenvironment

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Invasion-promoting extracellular matrix composition enhances photodynamic therapy response in 3D pancreatic cancer models'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this