FIGURE 1 from Small Extracellular Vesicles Promote Stiffness-mediated Metastasis
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Matrix stiffness impacts the quantity of EVs produced by patient tissue. A, Representative primary breast tumor tissue. Sample has been mechanically mapped using microindentation. Dark circles indicate measurements of the elastic modulus expressed in units of kPa. Crosses are nonmeasurable indentations. Dotted lines indicate where the tissue was sectioned into stiff (middle) and soft (right) regions for subsequent vesicle collection. B, Mean compression measurements (kPa, mean ± SEM) of patient tumor and adjacent normal tissues. Ten adjacent normal tissue samples and nine tumor tissue samples. Nonparametric t test. C, Vesicles released per gram of tissue in pathologist determined tumor adjacent or tumor tissue patient samples. Ten normal tissue samples and eight tumor tissue samples. D, Combined tumor-adjacent and tumor tissues samples separated by mean compression measurements (kPa, mean ± SEM). Fourteen samples < 10 kPa and four samples > 10 kPa. E, Tumor samples separated by mean microindentation measurements (kPa, mean ± SEM). Thirteen samples < 10 kPa and six samples > 10 kPa. Nonparametric t test.
Authors: Alexandra Sneider, Ying Liu, Bartholomew Starich, Wenxuan Du, Praful R. Nair, Carolyn Marar, Najwa Faqih, Gabrielle E. Ciotti, Joo Ho Kim, Sejal Krishnan, Salma Ibrahim, Muna Igboko, Alexus Locke, Daniel M. Lewis, Hanna Hong, Michelle N. Karl, Raghav Vij, Gabriella C. Russo, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, Mehran Habibi, Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Luo Gu, T.S. Karin Eisinger-Mathason, Denis Wirtz
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4396770024