Graduation Year
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.
Degree Granting Department
Physics
Major Professor
Chun-Min Lo, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Garrett Matthews, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Dale Johnson, Ph.D.
Keywords
ECIS, junctional resistance, cell adhesion molecules, intravasation, extravasation
Abstract
Cigarette smoke's influence on cancer has primarily been a subject of epidemilogic and tumorigenic studies. There have been no proper investigations with interests focused on how cigarette smoke affects the cellular mechanics of metastasis. Gathering an understanding of how smoke influences metastatic invasion could be vital in regulating or possibly eliminatings cancer's ability to initiate new tumor growth sites. This project focuses on cigarette smoke's influence on cellular mechanics of endothelial cells, and the invasive potential of cancer against a fully active endothelium. It is already known that cigarette smoke has a carcinogenic effect, but it is hypothesized that the cigarette smoke causes the endothelium to exhibit pro-invasive characteristics. Cancer cells are often ignorant to extra-cellular stimuli. It is suspected that there will be a less pronounced degradation of cellular mechanics of cancerous cells than endothelial cells when exposed to similar concentrations of cigarette smoke.
Scholar Commons Citation
Opp, Daniel, "Transendothelial Migration of Metastatic Cancer Under the Influence of Cigarette Smoke Condensate" (2007). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/3808
