Metabolic Profiling of healthy and cancerous tissues in 2D and 3D.

ABSTRACT: Metabolism is a compartmentalized process, and it is apparent in studying cancer that tumors, like normal tissues, demonstrate metabolic cooperation between different cell types. Metabolic profiling of cells in 2D culture systems often fails to reflect the metabolism occurring within tissues in vivo due to lack of other cell types and 3D interaction. We designed a tooling and methodology to metabolically profile and compare 2D cultures with cancer cell spheroids, and microtissue slices from tumors, and normal organs. We observed differences in the basal metabolism of 2D and 3D cell cultures in response to metabolic inhibitors, and chemotherapeutics. The metabolic profiles of microtissues derived from normal organs (heart, kidney) were relatively consistent when comparing microtissues deriv

SUBMITTER: Russell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5681543 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature