CELL SEPARATION AND GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS IN A TUMOR-STROMA INTERACTION MODEL

Authors

  • Regine Dahse
  • Hartwig Kosmehl

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5566/ias.v23.p153-157

Keywords:

2-D-coculture model, gene expression, laser microdissection, tumor invasion, stroma

Abstract

A novel technique for co-culturing and separating fibroblasts and carcinoma cells in a 2-D model of tumorstroma interaction is presented. The methodology is based on cell co-cultivation on an 1.35 μm thin membrane followed by rapid immunostaining and microdissection of the different cell compartments using a laser microdissection system (P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies AG, Germany). For identifying the tumor cell compartment, immunolabeling for a marker that is expressed only in epithelial tumor cells is performed. The RNA quality from the microdissected co-cultured cells was successfully proved by RT-PCR for a housekeeping gene transcript and for the laminin gamma 2 chain gene transcript used before in the tumor cell immunostaining. Laminin cDNA was amplificable only in tumor cells and not in the co-cultivated fibroblasts indicating no cell-cross-contamination during microdissection. Microdissected tumor and stroma cells from the presented membrane based co-culture model can be used for gene expression profiling and DNA based analysis in the investigation of tumor-stroma interactions.

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Published

2011-05-03

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Original Research Paper

How to Cite

Dahse, R., & Kosmehl, H. (2011). CELL SEPARATION AND GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS IN A TUMOR-STROMA INTERACTION MODEL. Image Analysis and Stereology, 23(3), 153-157. https://doi.org/10.5566/ias.v23.p153-157