Radiation response of multicellular spheroids initiated from five human melanoma xenograft lines. Relationship to the radioresponsiveness in vivo

The British Journal of Radiology
E K RofstadT Brustad

Abstract

Multicellular spheroids, initiated from five human melanoma xenograft lines (E.E., E.F., G.E., M.F., V.N.) and grown in liquid-overlay culture, were characterised with regard to radiation response. The principal aim of the work was to search for possible correlations with the radioresponsiveness in vivo of the parent xenografts. The spheroids were 100 +/- 5 microns in diameter at irradiation and did not contain radiobiologically hypoxic cells. Single-cell survival measured in soft agar, specific growth delay and spheroid cure were used as end-points. The cellular radiosensitivity was the same whether a melanoma was grown as spheroids or as xenografts. An intercellular contact effect was found for spheroids of the G.E. melanoma but not for spheroids of the E.E., E.F., M.F. and V.N. melanomas, in agreement with previous observations from studies of the corresponding xenografts in vivo. A positive correlation was found between the radiation response of the spheroids, measured as cell survival after 6 Gy or as specific growth delay after 6 Gy, and the radiation response of the parent tumours, measured as specific growth delay after 15 Gy. There was no correlation between the SCD50 (the dose required to cure 50% of the spheroids) an...Continue Reading

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