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ArticleScience advances2025

Construction of a whole-brain panorama for glioma vasculature reveals tumor heterogeneity and blood-brain barrier disruption.

Chenxi Huang, Xiaohong Xin, Xiaoxu Hao, Shilin Zhou, Zongneng Xie, Lijuan He, Xiaoliang Li, Yu Zhang, Hongyu Sun, Jiwen Zhang and 2 more

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12 authors.

Chenxi HuangLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID 0009-0007-0319-4882
Xiaohong XinCenter for MOST and Image Fusion Analysis, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6206-1915
Xiaoxu HaoLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID 0009-0009-0953-2816
Shilin ZhouLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.
Zongneng XieLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7008-4818
Lijuan HeLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.
Xiaoliang LiLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID 0009-0004-5070-0096
Yu ZhangCenter for MOST and Image Fusion Analysis, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Hongyu SunLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.
Jiwen ZhangCenter for Drug Delivery System, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0410-0052
Xiaochuan ZhangCenter for MOST and Image Fusion Analysis, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9315-5065
Xianzhen YinLingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200031, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7870-1718

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vasculature-induced tumor tissue heterogeneity impedes predicable drug distribution and presents notable challenges for optimizing nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery. However, mesoscopic-scale tumor heterogeneity across entire brain remains poorly characterized. To address this, we integrated micro-optical sectioning tomography (MOST) with high-precision three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction analysis to map pathological features of orthotopic glioma at submicron resolution across whole mice brain. Our findings uncovered significant heterogeneity in glioma invasiveness, vasculature, and compensatory angiogenesis while precisely delineating NP distribution throughout the tumor. Notably, early-stage glioma co-opted and migrated 680-micrometer upstream along the main cerebral artery within 4 days after glioma implantation. Blood-brain barrier permeability gradually increased during glioma progression, enabling NP penetrated via large-diameter vessels instead being restricted to capillaries. This work establishes a multiscale, high-resolution, 3D atlas of glioma heterogeneity and NP distribution, and bridges mesoscopic structural complexity to functional drug delivery barriers, advancing strategies to enhance oncotherapy precision in heterogeneous brain tumors.

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Blood-Brain BarrierBrainBrain NeoplasmsGliomaNeovascularization, PathologicAnimalsCell Line, TumorDrug Delivery SystemsHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMiceNanoparticles

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PMID40700511
PMCPMC12285729

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