The majority of acute myeloid leukemia ( AML ) patients have a poor response to conventional chemotherapy. The survival of chemoresistant cells is thought to depend on leukemia‐bone marrow ( BM ) microenvironment interactions, which are not well understood. The CXCL 12/ CXCR 4 axis has been proposed to support AML growth but was not studied at the single AML cell level. We recently showed that T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T‐ ALL ) cells are highly motile in the BM ; however, the characteristics of AML cell migration within the BM remain undefined. Here, we characterize the in vivo migratory behavior of AML cells and their response to chemotherapy and CXCR 4 antagonism, using high‐resolution 2‐photon and confocal intravital microscopy of mouse calvarium BM and the well‐established MLL ‐ AF 9‐driven AML mouse model. We used the Notch1‐driven T‐ ALL model as a benchmark comparison and AMD 3100 for CXCR 4 antagonism experiments. We show that AML cells are migratory, and in contrast with T‐ ALL , chemoresistant AML cells become less motile. Moreover, and in contrast with T‐ ALL , the in vivo exploratory behavior of expanding and chemoresistant AML cells is unaffected by AMD 3100. These results expand our understanding of AML cells‐ BM microenvironment interactions, highlighting unique traits of leukemia of different lineages.
Branching processes are used to model diverse social and physical scenarios, from extinction of family names to nuclear fission. However, for a better description of natural phenomena, such as viral epidemics in cellular tissues, animal populations and social networks, a spatial embedding—the branching random walk (BRW)—is required. Despite its wide range of applications, the properties of the volume explored by the BRW so far remained elusive, with exact results limited to one dimension. Here we present analytical results, supported by numerical simulations, on the scaling of the volume explored by a BRW in the critical regime, the onset of epidemics, in general environments. Our results characterise the spreading dynamics on regular lattices and general graphs, such as fractals, random trees and scale-free networks, revealing the direct relation between the graphs’ dimensionality and the rate of propagation of the viral process. Furthermore, we use the BRW to determine the spectral properties of real social and metabolic networks, where we observe that a lack of information of the network structure can lead to differences in the observed behaviour of the spreading process. Our results provide observables of broad interest for the characterisation of real world lattices, tissues, and networks.
Background Particle-tracking in 3D is an indispensable computational tool to extract critical information on dynamical processes from raw time-lapse imaging. This is particularly true with in vivo time-lapse fluorescence imaging in cell and developmental biology, where complex dynamics are observed at high temporal resolution. Common tracking algorithms used with time-lapse data in fluorescence microscopy typically assume a continuous signal where background, recognisable keypoints and independently moving objects of interest are permanently visible. Under these conditions, simple registration and identity management algorithms can track the objects of interest over time. In contrast, here we consider the case of transient signals and objects whose movements are constrained within a tissue, where standard algorithms fail to provide robust tracking. Results To optimize 3D tracking in these conditions, we propose the merging of registration and tracking tasks into a registration algorithm that uses random sampling to solve the identity management problem. We describe the design and application of such an algorithm, illustrated in the domain of plant biology, and make it available as an open-source software implementation. The algorithm is tested on mitotic events in 4D data-sets obtained with light-sheet fluorescence microscopy on growing Arabidopsis thaliana roots expressing CYCB::GFP. We validate the method by comparing the algorithm performance against both surrogate data and manual tracking. Conclusion This method fills a gap in existing tracking techniques, following mitotic events in challenging data-sets using transient fluorescent markers in unregistered images.
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