Intra-adrenal murine TH-MYCN neuroblastoma tumors grow more aggressive and exhibit a distinct tumor microenvironment relative to their subcutaneous equivalents
Publication year
2015Source
Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy, 64, 5, (2015), pp. 563-72ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Anesthesiology
Tumorimmunology
Central Animal Laboratory
Paediatrics - OUD tm 2017
Journal title
Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
Volume
vol. 64
Issue
iss. 5
Page start
p. 563
Page end
p. 72
Subject
Non Research Personnel Central Animal Laboratory are not attached to an institute / theme.; Radboudumc 2: Cancer development and immune defence RIMLS: Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences; NWP personeel van CDL vallen niet onder een instituut / themaAbstract
In around half of the patients with neuroblastoma (NBL), the primary tumor is located in one of the adrenal glands. We have previously reported on a transplantable TH-MYCN model of subcutaneous (SC) growing NBL in C57Bl/6 mice for immunological studies. In this report, we describe an orthotopic TH-MYCN transplantable model where the tumor cells were injected intra-adrenally (IA) by microsurgery. Strikingly, 9464D cells grew out much faster in IA tumors compared to the subcutis. Tumors were infiltrated by equal numbers of lymphocytes and myeloid cells. Within the myeloid cell population, however, tumor-infiltrating macrophages were more abundant in IA tumors compared to SC tumors and expressed lower levels of MHC class II, indicative of a more immunosuppressive phenotype. Using 9464D cells stably expressing firefly luciferase, enhanced IA tumor growth could be confirmed using bioluminescence. Collectively, these data show that the orthotopic IA localization of TH-MYCN cells impacts the NBL tumor microenvironment, resulting in a more stringent NBL model to study novel immunotherapeutic approaches for NBL.
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