Laboratory Blood Vessel to Study How Cancers Spread
 

Laboratory Blood Vessel to Study How Cancers Spread
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The mechanisms by which cancers metastasize and propagate throughout the body remain mostly a mystery. Primary tumors can be found and *******, but all too frequently the cancers randomly recur to fight a**ther fight. To better understand how cancer cells break off and travel through the blood stream to colonize other parts of the body, researchers at Johns Hopkins University created a transparent artificial blood vessel in which cancer behavior can be studied close-up.

The vessel is coated with collagen and seeded with endothelial cells. Once the device is ready, a clump of breast tumor tissue tagged with fluorescent markers is placed just outside the collagen matrix. Using a microscope, the markers can be tracked as the cancer cells move through the artificial vessel wall to reach the blood flow within the lumen.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Na**BioTech**logy released a podcast about this research which you can listen to*here…

Johns Hopkins:*Artificial blood vessel visualizes cancer cell journey…

Study in journal Cancer Research:*Live-Cell Imaging of Invasion and Intravasation in an Artificial Microvessel Platform…

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