ArticleCell adhesion & migration2016
Transmigration characteristics of breast cancer and melanoma cells through the brain endothelium: Role of Rac and PI3K.
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- A Drug Screening Reveals Minocycline Hydrochloride as a Therapeutic Option to Prevent Breast Cancer Cells Extravasation across the Blood-Brain Barrier.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Evaluating the Role of IL-1β in Transmigration of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Across the Brain Endothelium.Cellular and molecular bioengineering · 2022Article
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- Response of the neurovascular unit to brain metastatic breast cancer cells.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2019Article
- Paracellular and transcellular migration of metastatic cells through the cerebral endothelium.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2019Article
- Targeting Rac and Cdc42 GTPases in Cancer.Cancer research · 2018Review
- Foe or friend? Janus-faces of the neurovascular unit in the formation of brain metastases.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2018Review
- Melanoma Brain Metastasis: Mechanisms, Models, and Medicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016Review
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Abstract
Brain metastases are common and devastating complications of both breast cancer and melanoma. Although mammary carcinoma brain metastases are more frequent than those originating from melanoma, this latter has the highest tropism to the brain. Using static and dynamic in vitro approaches, here we show that melanoma cells have increased adhesion to the brain endothelium in comparison to breast cancer cells. Moreover, melanoma cells can transmigrate more rapidly and in a higher number through brain endothelial monolayers than breast cancer cells. In addition, melanoma cells have increased ability to impair tight junctions of cerebral endothelial cells. We also show that inhibition of Rac or PI3K impedes adhesion of breast cancer cells and melanoma cells to the brain endothelium. In addition, inhibition of Rac or PI3K inhibits the late phase of transmigration of breast cancer cells and the early phase of transmigration of melanoma cells. On the other hand, the Rac inhibitor EHT1864 impairs the junctional integrity of the brain endothelium, while the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 has no damaging effect on interendothelial junctions. We suggest that targeting the PI3K/Akt pathway may represent a novel opportunity in preventing the formation of brain metastases of melanoma and breast cancer.
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