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MOLECULAR THERAPY-METHODS & CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT
卷 20, 期 -, 页码 398-408出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2020.12.010
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [PJT 162313]
- CGS-D award from the CIHR
- Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
- Nova Scotia graduate scholarship
- Killam Laureate scholarship
- CIHR
- Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
- Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
The introduction of human-specific GAPDH qRT-PCR method allows quantification of metastasis in murine xenograft models without the requirement of overexpressed exogenous genes. This method is more sensitive and correlates well with histological analysis, making it a possible primary method for quantifying disseminated human cells in xenograft models.
Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer-related mortality. Experimental models that accurately reflect changes in metastatic burden are essential tools for developing treatments and to gain a better understanding of disease. Murine xenograft tumor models mimic the human scenario and provide a platform for metastasis analyses. An ex vivo quantitative method, gaining favor for its ease and accuracy, is quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR); however, it is currently unclear how well this method correlates with gold-standard histological analysis, and its use has required detection of overexpressed exogenous genes. We have introduced a variation of the qRT-PCR method: human-specific glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) qRT-PCR, which allows quantification of metastasis in xenograft models without the requirement of overexpressed exogenous genes. This makes the method easily amenable to many xenograft models without alteration of the cancer cells. We determined that the method is able to detect a few human cells within abundant mouse lung tissue. Further, the human-specific GAPDH qRT-PCR is more sensitive and correlates with histological analysis in terms of determining relative metastatic burden, suggesting that human-specific GAPDH qRT-PCR could be used as a primary method for quantification of disseminated human cells in murine xenograft models.
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