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ArticleCancers2021

The Chicken Chorioallantoic Membrane Tumor Assay as a Relevant In Vivo Model to Study the Impact of Hypoxia on Tumor Progression and Metastasis.

Kelly Harper, Anna Yatsyna, Martine Charbonneau, Karine Brochu-Gaudreau, Alexis Perreault, Claudio Jeldres, Patrick P McDonald, Claire M Dubois

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelly HarperDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Anna YatsynaDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Martine CharbonneauDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Karine Brochu-GaudreauDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1163-2196
Alexis PerreaultDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Claudio JeldresDepartment of Surgery, Division of Urology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Patrick P McDonaldDepartment of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4862-2784
Claire M DuboisDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H3, Canada.
Université de Sherbrooke · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment is a negative prognostic factor associated with tumor progression and metastasis, and therefore represents an attractive therapeutic target for anti-tumor therapy. To test the effectiveness of novel hypoxia-targeting drugs, appropriate preclinical models that recreate tumor hypoxia are essential. The chicken ChorioAllantoic Membrane (CAM) assay is increasingly used as a rapid cost-effective in vivo drug-testing platform that recapitulates many aspects of human cancers. However, it remains to be determined whether this model recreates the hypoxic microenvironment of solid tumors. To detect hypoxia in the CAM model, the hypoxic marker pimonidazole was injected into the vasculature of tumor-bearing CAM, and hypoxia-dependent gene expression was analyzed. We observed that the CAM model effectively supports the development of hypoxic zones in a variety of human tumor cell line-derived and patient's tumor fragment-derived xenografts. The treatment of both patient and cell line-derived CAM xenografts with modulators of angiogenesis significantly altered the formation of hypoxic zones within the xenografts. Furthermore, the changes in hypoxia translated into modulated levels of chick liver metastasis as measured by Alu-based assay. These findings demonstrate that the CAM xenograft model is a valuable in vivo platform for studying hypoxia that could facilitate the identification and testing of drugs targeting this tumor microenvironment.

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chick embryoChorioAllantoic Membranehypoxiametastasistumor progression

Identifiers

PMID33806378
PMCPMC7961795
OpenAlexW3134357072

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