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ArticleNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.)2015

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

Gennadiy Bondarenko, Andrey Ugolkov, Stephen Rohan, Piotr Kulesza, Oleksii Dubrovskyi, Demirkan Gursel, Jeremy Mathews, Thomas V O'Halloran, Jian J Wei, Andrew P Mazar

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Article in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 105 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Gennadiy BondarenkoCenter for Developmental Therapeutics, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA; Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA.
Andrey UgolkovCenter for Developmental Therapeutics, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA; Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA.
Stephen RohanDepartment of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA; Pathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 710 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL, USA.
Piotr KuleszaDepartment of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA; Pathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 710 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL, USA.
Oleksii DubrovskyiCenter for Developmental Therapeutics, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA; Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA.
Demirkan GurselPathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 710 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jeremy MathewsPathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 710 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL, USA.
Thomas V O'HalloranChemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA.
Jian J WeiDepartment of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA; Pathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 710 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL, USA.
Andrew P MazarCenter for Developmental Therapeutics, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 East Superior Street, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA; Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA. Electronic address: a-mazar@northwestern.edu.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Tumor Targeted Nanobins for the Treatment of Metastatic Breast and Ovarian CancerU01CA151461 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI O'HALLORAN, THOMAS V · 2010 to 2014
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS 2 P30 CA060553-19NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS U01 CA151461
6 · The paper itself

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.

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AnimalsB-LymphocytesHumansLymphomaMiceTransplantation, HeterologousXenograft Model Antitumor Assays

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