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The mechanism of cancer cell migration from the primary tumor toward secondary sites is not fully understood. In addition to intravascular cellular migration, angiotropic extravascular migratory metastasis (EVMM) has been recognized as a metastatic pathway involving tumor cells crawling along the abluminal vascular surface to distant sites. A very simple in vitro 3D assay is described here, which is based on a previous in vitro angiogenesis assay. The assay involves monitoring single fluorescence-tagged migrating cancer cells in the presence of vascular structures in real time. This coculture assay represents a quantitative approach for monitoring the migration processes of cancer cells along vessels, demonstrating phenotypic switching and migration dynamics. This protocol can be used for molecular analyses and can also be adapted for screening of therapeutic agents to block cancer metastasis.
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Lugassy, C., Kleinman, H.K., Barnhill, R.L. (2023). Monitoring Angiotropic Extravascular Migratory Metastasis In Vitro. In: Ribatti, D. (eds) Tumor Angiogenesis Assays. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2572. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2703-7_7
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