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Patient-Derived Tumor Xenografts Are Susceptible to Formation of Human Lymphocytic Tumors.

Abstract
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) tumor models have emerged as a new approach to evaluate the effects of cancer drugs on patients' personalized tumor grafts enabling to select the best treatment for the cancer patient and providing a new tool for oncology drug developers. Here, we report that human tumors engrafted in immunodeficient mice are susceptible to formation of B-and T-cell PDX tumors. We xenografted human primary and metastatic tumor samples into immunodeficient mice and found that a fraction of PDX tumors generated from patients' samples of breast, colon, pancreatic, bladder and renal cancer were histologically similar to lymphocytic neoplasms. Moreover, we found that the first passage of breast and pancreatic cancer PDX tumors after initial transplantation of the tumor pieces from the same human tumor graft could grow as a lymphocytic tumor in one mouse and as an adenocarcinoma in another mouse. Whereas subcutaneous PDX tumors resembling human adenocarcinoma histology were slow growing and non-metastatic, we found that subcutaneous PDX lymphocytic tumors were fast growing and formed large metastatic lesions in mouse lymph nodes, liver, lungs, and spleen. PDX lymphocytic tumors were comprised of B-cells which were Epstein-Barr virus positive and expressed CD45 and CD20. Because B-cells are typically present in malignant solid tumors, formation of B-cell tumor may evolve in a wide range of PDX tumor models. Although PDX tumor models show great promise in the development of personalized therapy for cancer patients, our results suggest that confidence in any given PDX tumor model requires careful screening of lymphocytic markers.
AuthorsGennadiy Bondarenko, Andrey Ugolkov, Stephen Rohan, Piotr Kulesza, Oleksii Dubrovskyi, Demirkan Gursel, Jeremy Mathews, Thomas V O'Halloran, Jian J Wei, Andrew P Mazar
JournalNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.) (Neoplasia) Vol. 17 Issue 9 Pg. 735-741 (Sep 2015) ISSN: 1476-5586 [Electronic] United States
PMID26476081 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Topics
  • Animals
  • B-Lymphocytes (immunology, pathology)
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma (etiology, immunology, pathology)
  • Mice
  • Transplantation, Heterologous (methods)
  • Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays (methods)

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