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(American Journal of Pathology. 2006;168:608-620.)
© 2006 American Society for Investigative Pathology

Remodeling of the Mammary Microenvironment after Lactation Promotes Breast Tumor Cell Metastasis

Shauntae M. McDaniel*, Kristen K. Rumer{dagger}, Sandra L. Biroc{ddagger}, Richard P. Metz§, Meenakshi Singh, Weston Porter§ and Pepper Schedin*{dagger}||**

From the AMC Cancer Research Center,* Denver, Colorado; the Department of Medicine,{dagger} Division of Medical Oncology, the Program of Cell and Developmental Biology,|| the Department of Pathology, the University of Colorado Cancer Center,** University of Colorado Health Science Center, Aurora, Colorado; Berlex Biosciences Pharmaceuticals,{ddagger} Richmond, California; and the Department of Interactive Biosciences,§ Texas A&M, College Station, Texas

The mammary gland microenvironment during postlactational involution shares similarities with inflammation, including high matrix metalloproteinase activity, fibrillar collagen deposition, and release of bioactive fragments of fibronectin and laminin. Because inflammation can promote tumorigenesis, we evaluated whether the tissue microenvironment of the involuting gland is also promotional. Extracellular matrix was isolated from mammary glands of nulliparous rats or rats with mammary glands undergoing weaning-induced involution. Using these matrices as substratum, nulliparous matrix was found to promote ductal organization of normal mammary epithelial MCF-12A cells in three-dimensional culture and to suppress invasion of mammary tumor MDA-MB-231 cells in transwell filter assays. Conversely, involution matrix failed to support ductal development in normal cells and promoted invasiveness in tumor cells. To evaluate the effects of these matrices on metastasis in vivo, MDA-MB-231 cells, premixed with Matrigel, nulliparous matrix, or involution matrix, were injected into mammary fat pads of nude mice. Metastases to lung, liver, and kidney were increased in the involution matrix group, and correlated with a twofold increase in tumor vascular endothelial growth factor expression and increased angiogenesis. These data suggest that the mammary gland microenvironment becomes promotional for tumor cell dissemination during involution, thus providing a plausible mechanism to explain the high rate of metastases that occur with pregnancy-associated breast cancer.




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