Malignant ascites in ovarian cancer: cellular, acellular, and biophysical determinants of molecular characteristics and therapy response

BP Rickard, C Conrad, AJ Sorrin, MK Ruhi, JC Reader… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Accumulation of excess fluid in the abdomen typically indicates abnormal
function or disease, such as cancer, in the underlying tissues. This accumulation of fluid, or …

Biology of cancer; from cellular and molecular mechanisms to developmental processes and adaptation

IG Motofei - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer research has been largely focused on the cellular and molecular levels of
investigation. Recent data show that not only the cell but also the extracellular matrix plays a …

Stiffness increases with myofibroblast content and collagen density in mesenchymal high grade serous ovarian cancer

V Mieulet, C Garnier, Y Kieffer, T Guilbert, F Nemati… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Women diagnosed with high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOC) are still likely to
exhibit a bad prognosis, particularly when suffering from HGSOC of the Mesenchymal …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles promote activation of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts and facilitate invasion and metastasis of ovarian cancer by …

Y Cui, D Wang, M Xie - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a lethal gynecological malignancy. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are
crucial media in cell-to-cell communication by carrying microRNAs (miRs). The current study …

Integrated cancer tissue engineering models for precision medicine

ME Bregenzer, EN Horst, P Mehta, CM Novak… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Tumors are not merely cancerous cells that undergo mindless proliferation. Rather, they are
highly organized and interconnected organ systems. Tumor cells reside in complex …

The role of cancer stem cells and mechanical forces in ovarian cancer metastasis

ME Bregenzer, EN Horst, P Mehta, CM Novak… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer is an extremely lethal gynecologic disease; with the high-grade serous
subtype predominantly associated with poor survival rates. Lack of early diagnostic …

Ascitic fluid shear stress in concert with hepatocyte growth factor drive stemness and chemoresistance of ovarian cancer cells via the c-Met-PI3K/Akt-miR-199a-3p …

AA Hassan, M Artemenko, MKS Tang, Z Shi… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Overcoming drug resistance is an inevitable challenge to the success of cancer treatment.
Recently, in ovarian cancer, a highly chemoresistant tumor, we demonstrated an important …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance elastography reconstruction for anisotropic tissues

B Babaei, D Fovargue, RA Lloyd, R Miller, L Jugé… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastography has become widely used clinically for characterising changes in soft tissue
mechanics that are associated with altered tissue structure and composition. However, some …

Compressive stimulation enhances ovarian cancer proliferation, invasion, chemoresistance, and mechanotransduction via CDC42 in a 3D bioreactor

CM Novak, EN Horst, E Lin, G Mehta - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
This report investigates the role of compressive stress on ovarian cancer in a 3D custom
built bioreactor. Cells within the ovarian tumor microenvironment experience a range of …

Select Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) induce resistance to carboplatin in ovarian cancer cell lines

BP Rickard, X Tan, SE Fenton, I Rizvi - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants
associated with adverse reproductive outcomes including reproductive cancers in women …