Figure 2.

Cx43 upregulation decreases formation of invasive cell aggregates in 3D cultures. (a) and (b) Microscopic images for cells in 2D and 3D culture systems (scale bars of 100 and 50 µm), respectively. Upper panels show bright field images of cells/aggregates and lower panels show fluorescent images of shCx43 cells/aggregates or Cx43D cells/aggregates. (c) Bar graph showing the number of cell aggregates formed after 8 days in culture, normalized to number of cell aggregates formed by parental MDA-MB-231 cells. (d) Bar graph showing the numbers of cell aggregates with stellate versus spherical morphology after 8 days in culture. Results are averages of ten different fields of three independent experiments. * p < 0.05; *** p < 0.001.