標題: A rapid and quantitative method to detect human circulating tumor cells in a preclinical animal model
作者: Tu, Shih-Hsin
Hsieh, Yi-Chen
Huang, Li-Chi
Lin, Chun-Yu
Hsu, Kai-Wen
Hsieh, Wen-Shyang
Chi, Wei-Ming
Lee, Chia-Hwa
生物資訊及系統生物研究所
Institude of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
關鍵字: Cancer metastasis;Circulating tumor cells;Quantitative PCR;In vivo bioluminescent imaging system
公開日期: 23-Jun-2017
摘要: Background: As cancer metastasis is the deadliest aspect of cancer, causing 90% of human deaths, evaluating the molecular mechanisms underlying this process is the major interest to those in the drug development field. Both therapeutic target identification and proof-of-concept experimentation in anti-cancer drug development require appropriate animal models, such as xenograft tumor transplantation in transgenic and knockout mice. In the progression of cancer metastasis, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the most critical factor in determining the prognosis of cancer patients. Several studies have demonstrated that measuring CTC-specific markers in a clinical setting (e.g., flow cytometry) can provide a current status of cancer development in patients. However, this useful technique has rarely been applied in the real-time monitoring of CTCs in preclinical animal models. Methods: In this study, we designed a rapid and reliable detection method by combining a bioluminescent in vivo imaging system (IVIS) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR)-based analysis to measure CTCs in animal blood. Using the IVIS Spectrum CT System with 3D-imaging on orthotropic-developed breast-tumor-bearing mice. Results: In this manuscript, we established a quick and reliable method for measuring CTCs in a preclinical animal mode. The key to this technique is the use of specific human and mouse GUS primers on DNA/RNA of mouse peripheral blood under an absolute qPCR system. First, the high sensitivity of cancer cell detection on IVIS was presented by measuring the luciferase carried MDA-MB-231 cells from 5 to 5x10(11) cell numbers with great correlation (R-2 = 0.999). Next, the MDA-MB-231 cell numbers injected by tail vein and their IVIS radiance signals were strongly corrected with qPCR-calculated copy numbers (R-2 > 0.99). Furthermore, by applying an orthotropic implantation animal model, we successfully distinguished xenograft tumor-bearing mice and control mice with a significant difference (p < 0.001), whereas IVIS Spectrum-CT 3D-visualization showed that blood of mice with lung metastasis contained more than twice the CTC numbers than ordinary tumor-bearing mice. We demonstrated a positive correlation between lung metastasis status and CTC numbers in peripheral mouse blood. Conclusion: Collectively, the techniques developed for this study resulted in the integration of CTC assessments into preclinical models both in vivo and ex vivo, which will facilitate translational targeted therapy in clinical practice.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3419-x
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/145701
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3419-x
期刊: BMC CANCER
Volume: 17
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