Growth and immunogenicity of human glioma in severe combined immunodeficiency-human mice.
The severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse was investigated as a model system to study the growth and immunogenicity of human gliomas. Human glioma cell lines U-251MG, KNS-42, SF-188, A-172, and T-98G were injected subcutaneously into SCID mice. The cell lines U-251MG and KNS-42 grew as large, subcutaneous masses; SF-188, A-172, and T-98G did not grow. Glioma-immune system interactions were studied by the transplantation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes into tumor-bearing SCID mice. In the resultant SCID-human (SCID-hu) mice, transplanted lymphocytes infiltrated into the subcutaneously growing tumors and expressed the surface markers of human B, T, and natural killer cells. The SCID-hu mouse is a potentially powerful model to study the basic tumor biology of some human gliomas and also represents a useful screening system to evaluate experimental immunotherapies for brain tumors.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Kokunai
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D000818:Animals; D005910:Glioma / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D016246:Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D016513:Mice, SCID; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured