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ArticleLeukemia & lymphoma2012

CD40 ligand is necessary and sufficient to support primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cells in culture: a tool for in vitro preclinical studies with primary B-cell malignancies.

Daisuke Ito, Aric M Frantz, Christina Williams, Rachael Thomas, Robert C Burnett, Anne C Avery, Matthew Breen, Nicola J Mason, Timothy D O'Brien, Jaime F Modiano

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Article in Leukemia & lymphoma, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Daisuke ItoMasonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 5455, USA. itoxx018@umn.edu
Aric M Frantz
Christina Williams
Rachael Thomas
Robert C Burnett
Anne C Avery
Matthew Breen
Nicola J Mason
Timothy D O'Brien
Jaime F Modiano
Masonic Cancer CenterColorado State University · USNorth Carolina State University · USUniversity of Minnesota · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Women's CancerP30CA077598 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Douglas Yee · 1998 to 2026
$100.4M
SPONTANEOUS CANINE MODELS FOR CANCER GENE DISCOVERYR01CA112211 · NCI · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI BREEN, MATTHEW · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA077598NCI NIH HHS P30CA077598NCI NIH HHS R01 CA112211NCI NIH HHS R01CA112211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Established cell lines are utilized extensively to study tumor biology and preclinical therapeutic development. However, they may not accurately recapitulate the heterogeneity of their corresponding primary disease. B-cell tumor cells are especially difficult to maintain under conventional culture conditions, limiting access to samples that faithfully represent this disease for preclinical studies. Here, we used primary canine diffuse large B-cell lymphoma to establish a culture system that reliably supports the growth of these cells. CD40 ligand, either expressed by feeder cells or provided as a soluble two-trimeric form, was sufficient to support primary lymphoma cells in vitro. The tumor cells retained their original phenotype, clonality and known karyotypic abnormalities after extended expansion in culture. Finally, we illustrate the utility of the feeder cell-free culture system for comparable assessment of cytotoxicity using dog and human B-cell malignancies. We conclude that this system has broad applications for in vitro preclinical development for B-cell malignancies.

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AnimalsCD40 LigandCell Culture TechniquesCell ProliferationCell SurvivalCoculture TechniquesDogsDose-Response Relationship, DrugFeeder CellsGene Expression ProfilingHumansLymphoma, Large B-Cell, DiffuseOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRecombinant ProteinsTumor Cells, CulturedCD40 LigandRecombinant Proteins

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PMID22229753
PMCPMC3727651
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