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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2014

In vitro Development of Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy Drug-Resistant Cancer Cell Lines: A Practical Guide with Case Studies.

Martina McDermott, Alex J Eustace, Steven Busschots, Laura Breen, John Crown, Martin Clynes, Norma O'Donovan, Britta Stordal

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 188 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

188 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 313 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Martina McDermottNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland ; Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina , Columbia, SC , USA.
Alex J EustaceNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland ; Department of Medical Oncology, Beaumont Hospital, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , Dublin , Ireland.
Steven BusschotsDepartment of Histopathology, St James' Hospital, Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Ireland.
Laura BreenNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland.
John CrownNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland ; Department of Medical Oncology, St Vincent's University Hospital , Dublin , Ireland.
Martin ClynesNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland.
Norma O'DonovanNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland.
Britta StordalNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University , Dublin , Ireland ; Department of Histopathology, St James' Hospital, Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Ireland.
Dublin City University · IESt. James's Hospital · IESt. Vincent's University Hospital · IEUniversity of South Carolina · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of a drug-resistant cell line can take from 3 to 18 months. However, little is published on the methodology of this development process. This article will discuss key decisions to be made prior to starting resistant cell line development; the choice of parent cell line, dose of selecting agent, treatment interval, and optimizing the dose of drug for the parent cell line. Clinically relevant drug-resistant cell lines are developed by mimicking the conditions cancer patients experience during chemotherapy and cell lines display between two- and eight-fold resistance compared to their parental cell line. Doses of drug administered are low, and a pulsed treatment strategy is often used where the cells recover in drug-free media. High-level laboratory models are developed with the aim of understanding potential mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy agents. Doses of drug are higher and escalated over time. It is common to have difficulty developing stable clinically relevant drug-resistant cell lines. A comparative selection strategy of multiple cell lines or multiple chemotherapeutic agents mitigates this risk and gives insight into which agents or type of cell line develops resistance easily. Successful selection strategies from our research are presented. Pulsed-selection produced platinum or taxane-resistant large cell lung cancer (H1299 and H460) and temozolomide-resistant melanoma (Malme-3M and HT144) cell lines. Continuous selection produced a lapatinib-resistant breast cancer cell line (HCC1954). Techniques for maintaining drug-resistant cell lines are outlined including; maintaining cells with chemotherapy, pulse treating with chemotherapy, or returning to master drug-resistant stocks. The heterogeneity of drug-resistant models produced from the same parent cell line with the same chemotherapy agent is explored with reference to P-glycoprotein. Heterogeneity in drug-resistant cell lines reflects the heterogeneity that can occur in clinical drug resistance.

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cancercell lineschemotherapydrug-resistanceselection strategy

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PMID24639951
PMCPMC3944788
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