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Record W4416143463 · doi:10.1002/adbi.202500379

Osteocytes under Mechanical Loading Regulate PC‐3 Cancer Cell–Mineral Interactions during Early‐Stage Metastasis to Bone

2025· article· en· W4416143463 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAdvanced Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBone health and treatments
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversitySunnybrook Health Science CentreUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsOsteocyteBone metastasisMetastasisProstate cancerIn vivoCancerCancer cellProstate

Abstract

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Bone metastasis causes severe complications for patients suffering from advanced-stage prostate cancer. Exercise is recommended to help maintain musculoskeletal health during treatment. As primary mechanosensors and regulators of bone homeostasis, osteocytes recently investigate for their roles in prostate cancer bone metastasis. Recently, in vivo studies show that exercise mitigates prostate tumor progression and preserves bone structure. In contrast, in vitro studies indicate direct prostate cancer-osteocyte interactions under mechanical loading conditions promote prostate cancer growth and migration but exclude other host cells present in the metastatic bone microenvironment. Thus, these in vitro findings are not consistent with recent in vivo results. In this study, the role of mechanically stimulated osteocytes during the initial stages of metastatis in osteoblast-rich areas is examined. When treated with conditioned media from flow-stimulated osteocytes, osteoblasts reduce PC-3 wound healing migration and invasion compared to static controls. Of interest, osteoblasts treated with flow-stimulated MLO-Y4 and primary osteocyte conditioned media suppress PC-3 cancer cell growth, alter cancer cell morphology, and preserve mineralized matrix in a microfluidic co-culture assay. Overall, the inhibitory role of mechanical loading of osteocytes on the early-stage metastasis of the endosteal surface during prostate cancer bone metastasis is demonstrated.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.199
Threshold uncertainty score0.611

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.342 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it