TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meyer, Till Jasper
A1  - Stöth, Manuel
A1  - Moratin, Helena
A1  - Ickrath, Pascal
A1  - Herrmann, Marietta
A1  - Kleinsasser, Norbert
A1  - Hagen, Rudolf
A1  - Hackenberg, Stephan
A1  - Scherzad, Agmal
T1  - Cultivation of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells with wound fluid leads to cisplatin resistance via epithelial-mesenchymal transition induction
JF  - International Journal of Molecular Sciences
N2  - Locoregional recurrence is a major reason for therapy failure after surgical resection of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The physiological process of postoperative wound healing could potentially support the proliferation of remaining tumor cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of wound fluid (WF) on the cell cycle distribution and a potential induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). To verify this hypothesis, we incubated FaDu and HLaC78 cells with postoperative WF from patients after neck dissection. Cell viability in dependence of WF concentration and cisplatin was measured by flow cytometry. Cell cycle analysis was performed by flow cytometry and EMT-marker expression by rtPCR. WF showed high concentrations of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10, CCL2, MCP-1, EGF, angiogenin, and leptin. The cultivation of tumor cells with WF resulted in a significant increase in cell proliferation without affecting the cell cycle. In addition, there was a significant enhancement of the mesenchymal markers Snail 2 and vimentin, while the expression of the epithelial marker E-cadherin was significantly decreased. After cisplatin treatment, tumor cells incubated with WF showed a significantly higher resistance compared with the control group. The effect of cisplatin-resistance was dependent on the WF concentration. In summary, proinflammatory cytokines are predominantly found in WF. Furthermore, the results suggest that EMT can be induced by WF, which could be a possible mechanism for cisplatin resistance.
KW  - cell proliferation
KW  - wound fluid
KW  - epithelial-mesenchymal transition
KW  - cisplatin resistance
KW  - Interleukin
KW  - head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-258722
SN  - 1422-0067
VL  - 22
IS  - 9
ER  -