Cryopreservation of viable human glioblastoma xenografts.

Abstract:

:Human tumour xenografts maintained in nude mice are a valuable research tool. The passaging and maintenance of human tumour xenografts in immune-deficient animals are expensive and labour-intensive. This study presents a protocol that permits long-term cryopreservation of viable glioblastoma xenograft tissue pieces in liquid nitrogen. Twenty different human glioblastoma xenografts that have been successfully transplanted and repeatedly passaged in nude mice were cryopreserved to validate the method. Different passages were cryopreserved for up to 40 months. On retransplantation of the tumours, all cases except one grew successfully. In order to ensure that the individual tumours did grow (not induced mouse tumours) restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) probes was carried out. The method permits the long-term storage of viable, retransplantable glioblastoma xenografts. It minimizes animal use for the maintenance of xenografts and permits cryo-back-up of valuable tumours, thus markedly reducing the cost and increasing the accessibility of human tumour xenografts as a research tool in biology and genetics.

authors

Goike HM,Asplund AC,Pettersson EH,Liu L,Ichimura K,Collins VP

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2990.2000.026002172.x

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-04-01 00:00:00

pages

172-6

issue

2

eissn

0305-1846

issn

1365-2990

pii

nan220

journal_volume

26

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