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ArticleThe journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society2021

Considerations for Whole-Slide Analysis of Murine Xenografts Experiments.

Abigail R Bland, John C Ashton

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Article in The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Development of an ALK-positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in Vitro Tumor 3D Culture Model for Therapeutic Screening.The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Abigail R BlandDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
John C AshtonDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Histochemistry of tumor sections is a widely employed technique utilized to examine cell death in preclinical xenograft animal models of cancer. However, this is under the assumption that tumors are homogeneous, leading to practices such as automatic cell counting across the entire section. We have noted that in our experiments the core of the tumor is largely or partially necrotic, and lacks evidence of vascularization (in contrast to the outer areas of the tumor). We note that this can bias and confound immunohistochemical analyses that do not take care to sample areas of interest in a way to take this into account. Design-based stereology with image analysis techniques is an alternative process that could be used to measure the volume of the necrotic region compared to the volume of the whole tumor.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedAnimalsApoptosisImmunohistochemistryMaleMiceMice, NudeNeoplasms, ExperimentalNeovascularization, Pathologiccell deathimmunohistochemistrynecrotic core and heterogeneousstereologytumorxenograft

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PMID34617806
PMCPMC8504257

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