Salinas-Vera YM, Gallardo-Rincón D, Ruíz-García E, Marchat LA, Valdés J, Vázquez-Calzada C, López-Camarillo C. A Three-Dimensional Culture-Based Assay to Detect Early Stages of Vasculogenic Mimicry in Ovarian Cancer Cells.
Methods Mol Biol 2022;
2514:53-60. [PMID:
35771418 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-2403-6_6]
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Abstract
Vasculogenic mimicry is a cellular mechanism in which tumor cells grow and align forming complex three-dimensional (3D) channel-like structures in a hypoxic microenvironment. This phenomenon represents a novel oxygen, nutrient, and blood supply, in a similar way as occurs in classic angiogenesis. Vasculogenic mimicry has been described in numerous clinical tumors including breast, prostate, lung, and ovarian cancers where it is associated with poor prognosis; thus, it is considered as a hallmark of highly aggressive and metastatic tumors. Here, we describe a simple method to model the in vitro formation of three-dimensional cellular networks over Matrigel in SKOV3 ovarian cancer cells representing the early stages of vasculogenic mimicry.
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