1. Cancer Cell Invasion and Metastasis in Zebrafish Models (Danio rerio)
Sarah Martinez Roth, Eric B Berens, Ghada M Sharif, Eric Glasgow, and Anton Wellstein
2. The Chicken Egg Chorionallantois Membrane (CAM) model as an in vivo Method for the Investigation of the Invasion and Metastasis Cascade of Malignant Tumor Cells
Jörg H. Leupold, Nitin Patil, and Heike Allgayer
3. In vitro 3D Models of Tuneable Stiffness
Elysse C. Filipe, Amelia L. Parker, Antonia L. Cadell, Gretel Major, David R. Croucher, and Thomas R. Cox
4. Patient-derived Xenografts from Solid Tumors (PDX) for Models of Metastasis
Annika Wulf-Goldenberg , Jens Hoffmann, Michael Becker, Bernadette Brzezicha, and Wolfgang Walther
5. Preparation and Culture of Organotypic Hippocampal Slices for the Analysis of Brain Metastasis and Primary Brain Tumor Growth
Ellina Schulz, Tim Hohmann, Urszula Hohmann, Ralf-Ingo Ernestus, Mario Löhr, Faramarz Dehghani, and Carsten Hagemann
Part II: Functional Mechanisms of Metastasis
6. Measuring Mechanical and Adhesive Properties of Single Cells Using an Atomic Force Microscope
Tim Hohmann and Faramarz Dehghani
7. Analysing the Roles of Rho GTPases in Cancer Cell Adhesion to Endothelial Cells under Flow Conditions
Camilla Cerutti and Anne J. Ridley
8. Probing Intravascular Adhesion and Extravasation Of Tumor Cells With Microfluidics
Naël Osmani, Gautier Follain, Valentin Gensbittel, María Jesús García-León, Sébastien Harlepp, and Jacky G. Goetz
9. Real-time Cell Migration Monitoring to Analyze Drug Synergism in the Scratch Assay using the IncuCyte system
Dennis Kobelt, Wolfgang Walther, and Ulrike Stein
10. Measurement of Metabolites from Migrating Cells
Demond Williams and Barbara Fingleton
11. Matrix Degradation Assay to Measure the Ability of Tumor Cells to Degrade Extracellular Matrix
Rosa Fontana and Jing Yang
12. Evaluation of Real-Time In Vitro Invasive Phenotypes
René M. DeLosh and Robert H. Shoemaker
13. Detection of Tumor Cell-induced Platelet Aggregation and Granule Secretion
Svenja Schwarz, Martin Schlesinger, and Gerd Bendas
14. Fatty Acid Driven Polarization of Suppressive Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages Including Metabolic and Functional Analysis
Rainer Glauben and Hao Wu
15. From Whole Blood to Isolated Pro-Metastasis Immune Cells: An Ex-Vivo Approach to Isolate and Manipulate Immune Cells Contributing To Tumor Metastasis
Amany Samir. and Hend M. ElTayebi
Part III: Prognostication of Metastasis
16. A Bioinformatic Pipeline to Identify Biomarkers for Metastasis Formation from RNA Sequencing Data
Mathias Dahlmann and Ulrike Stein
17. Barcoding Technology for Multiplexed Analysis of Metastatic Ability In Vivo
Philip Dujardin and Barbara M. Grüner
18. In Vivo Assessment of Metastatic Cell Potential in Prostate Cancer
Marc Nunez-Olle, Marc Guiu, and Roger R. Gomis
19. Isolation of Nucleoli for Characterization of Nucleolar Contents to Uncover Clues to Metastatic Progression
Shannon E. Weeks and Rajeev S. Samant
20. Analyzing the Role of Proteases in Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis using Primary Cells from Transgenic Oncomice
Olga Vasiljeva, Lisa Sevenich, and Thomas Reinheckel
Part IV: Clinical Metastasis
21. Nuclear Medicine Imaging Procedures in Oncology
Ajay-Mohan Mohan, Nicola Beindorff, and Winfried Brenner
22. From Operating Table to Laboratory Bench: The path Towards Metastasis Research from the Clinical Setting
Miguel E. Alberto Vilchez, , and Rau, Beate
This volume provides the most recent developments and methodologies on metastatic process, formation, and detection. Chapters guide readers through functional metastasis in vitro assays, non-mouse and mice metastasis models, methods for imaging metastasis, analyzing the tumor microenvironment, senescence and inflammation with respect to metastasis, methods to investgate the premetastatic/ metastatic, detecting biomarkers in patient, and bioinformatics to simulate the metastatic process. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Metastasis: Methods and Protocols aims to be a useful practical guide to researches to help further their study in this field.