Jesus Delgado-Calle, Manish Adhikari, Japneet Kaur, Hayley Sabol, Aric Anloague, Sharmin Khan, Noriyoshi Kurihara, Marta Diaz-delCastillo, Christina Andreasen, C Lowry Barnes, Jeffrey Stambough, Michela Palmieri, Olivia Reyes-Castro, Elena Ambrogini, Maria Almeida, Charles O'Brien, Intawat Nookaew
Breast cancer bone metastases increase fracture risk and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among women. Upon colonization by tumor cells, the bone microenvironment undergoes profound reprogramming to support cancer progression that disrupts the balance between osteoclasts and osteoblasts, leading to bone lesions. Whether such reprogramming affects matrix-embedded osteocytes remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that osteocytes in breast cancer bone metastasis develop premature senescence and a distinctive senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) that favors bone destruction...
March 14, 2024: Research Square