Project description:Bone is the most common site of breast cancer metastasis, and this type of metastasis is a main cause of morbidity. Because breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, the interactions between the cancer cells and the skeletal host cells, such as osteoblasts, might be diverse. Thus far, these tumor-osteoblast interactions have not yet been well characterized using a genomic approach. We hypothesized that gene expression signatures induced by tumor-osteoblast interactions might be of clinical relevance. To examine these gene expression signatures, we established an ex vivo co-culture model with benign human cells and a panel of 5 malignant breast epithelial cells in combination with primary human osteoblasts and determined associated gene expression changes using cDNA microarrays. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE29030: Normal human osteoblasts and HMEC mono and coculture GSE29031: Normal human osteoblasts and Hs578t mono and coculture GSE29032: Normal human osteoblasts and MCF7 mono and coculture GSE29033: Normal human osteoblasts and MDA-MB-231 mono and coculture GSE29034: Normal human osteoblasts and SKBR3 mono and coculture GSE29035: Normal human osteoblasts and T47D mono and coculture Refer to individual Series
Project description:We performed mono- or combo-therapies of paclitaxel and afatinib and performed RNA-seq to compare the perturbed transcriptome in MDA-MB-231 cells
