Generation of Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Intracranial Xenografts for Preclinical Studies.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Amber E Kerstetter-FogleAndrew E Sloan

Abstract

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant primary brain cancer affecting adults. Therapeutic options for GBM have remained the same for over a decade with no significant improvement. Many therapies that are successful in culture have failed in patients, likely due to the complex microenvironment in the brain, which has yet to be reproduced in any culture model. Furthermore, the high passage number of cultured cells and clonal selection fail to recapitulate the molecular and genomic signatures of GBM. We have established orthotopic patient-derived xenografts (PDX) from 37 GBM patients with human GBM. Of the 69 patient samples analyzed, we were successful in passaging 37 lines three or more generations (53.6%). After phenotypic characterization of the xenografted tumor tissue, two different growth patterns emerged highly invasive or localized. The phenotype was dependent on malignancy and previous treatment of the patient from which the xenograft was derived. Physiologically, mice exhibited symptoms more quickly with each subsequent passage, particularly in the localized tumors. Study of these physiologically relevant human xenografts in mice will enable therapeutic screenings in a microenvironment that more closely res...Continue Reading

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BETA
xenograft
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