Carcinoma cells misuse the host tissue damage response to invade the brain

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​Carcinoma cells misuse the host tissue damage response to invade the brain​
Chuang, H.-N.; van Rossum, D.; Sieger, D.; Siam, L.; Klemm, F.; Bleckmann, A. & Bayerlova, M.  et al.​ (2013) 
Glia61(8) pp. 1331​-1346​.​ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.22518 

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Chuang, Han-Ning; van Rossum, Denise; Sieger, Dirk; Siam, Laila; Klemm, Florian; Bleckmann, Annalen; Bayerlova, Michaela ; Farhat, Katja; Scheffel, Joerg; Schulz, Matthias; Dehghani, Faramarz; Stadelmann, Christine ; Hanisch, Uwe-Karsten; Binder, Claudia; Pukrop, Tobias
Abstract
The metastatic colonization of the brain by carcinoma cells is still barely understood, in particular when considering interactions with the host tissue. The colonization comes with a substantial destruction of the surrounding host tissue. This leads to activation of damage responses by resident innate immune cells to protect, repair, and organize the wound healing, but may distract from tumoricidal actions. We recently demonstrated that microglia, innate immune cells of the CNS, assist carcinoma cell invasion. Here we report that this is a fatal side effect of a physiological damage response of the brain tissue. In a brain slice coculture model, contact with both benign and malignant epithelial cells induced a response by microglia and astrocytes comparable to that seen at the interface of human cerebral metastases. While the glial damage response intended to protect the brain from intrusion of benign epithelial cells by inducing apoptosis, it proved ineffective against various malignant cell types. They did not undergo apoptosis and actually exploited the local tissue reaction to invade instead. Gene expression and functional analyses revealed that the C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) and WNT signaling were involved in this process. Furthermore, CXCR4-regulated microglia were recruited to sites of brain injury in a zebrafish model and CXCR4 was expressed in human stroke patients, suggesting a conserved role in damage responses to various types of brain injuries. Together, our findings point to a detrimental misuse of the glial damage response program by carcinoma cells resistant to glia-induced apoptosis. GLIA 2013;61:1331-1346
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2013
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published
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Wiley-blackwell
Journal
Glia 
ISSN
0894-1491

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