Orthotopic Injection of Breast Cancer Cells into the Mammary Fat Pad of Mice to Study Tumor Growth


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Kocaturk B., Versteeg H. H.

JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS, sa.96, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: Sayı: 96
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3791/51967
  • Dergi Adı: JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Medicine, Issue 96, Breast Cancer, Tumor growth, Orthotopic Injection, Metastasis, DNA-DAMAGE, METASTASIS, ADENOCARCINOMA, INHIBITION, PATHWAYS, MATRIGEL, PROMOTES, MODELS, P53
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Breast cancer growth can be studied in mice using a plethora of models. Genetic manipulation of breast cancer cells may provide insights into the functions of proteins involved in oncogenic progression or help to discover new tumor suppressors. In addition, injecting cancer cells into mice with different genotypes might provide a better understanding of the importance of the stromal compartment. Many models may be useful to investigate certain aspects of disease progression but do not recapitulate the entire cancerous process. In contrast, breast cancer cells engraftment to the mammary fat pad of mice better recapitulates the location of the disease and presence of the proper stromal compartment and therefore better mimics human cancerous disease. In this article, we describe how to implant breast cancer cells into mice orthotopically and explain how to collect tissues to analyse the tumor milieu and metastasis to distant organs. Using this model, many aspects (growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis) of cancer can be investigated simply by providing a proper environment for tumor cells to grow.