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标题：Bioimpedimetric analysis in conjunction with growth dynamics to differentiate aggressiveness of cancer cells
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作者：Aditya Parekh ; Debanjan Das ; Subhayan Das 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：783
DOI：10.1038/s41598-017-18965-9
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Determination of cancer aggressiveness is mainly assessed in tissues by looking at the grade of cancer. There is a lack of specific method to determine aggressiveness of cancer cells in vitro. In our present work, we have proposed a bio-impedance based non-invasive method to differentiate aggressive property of two breast cancer cell lines. Real-time impedance analysis of MCF-7 (less aggressive) and MDA-MB-231 cells (more aggressive) demonstrated unique growth pattern. Detailed slope-analysis of impedance curves at different growth phases showed that MDA-MB-231 had higher proliferation rate and intrinsic resistance to cell death, when allowed to grow in nutrient and space limiting conditions. This intrinsic nature of death resistance of MDA-MB-231 was due to modulation and elongation of filopodia, which was also observed during scanning electron microscopy. Results were also similar when validated by cell cycle analysis. Additionally, wavelet based analysis was used to demonstrate that MCF-7 had lesser micromotion based cellular activity, when compared with MDA-MB-231. Combined together, we hypothesize that analysis of growth rate, death resistance and cellular energy, through bioimpedance based analysis can be used to determine and compare aggressiveness of multiple cancer cell lines. This further opens avenues for extrapolation of present work to human tumor tissue samples.