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Bioluminescence Imaging of an Immunocompetent Animal Model for Glioblastoma
Published on: January 15, 2016
Transgenic nude mouse with green fluorescent protein expression-based human glioblastoma multiforme animal model with
Guo-Wei Tan1, Fo-Lin Lan, Jian-Guo Gao
1School of Life Sciences, Neurosurgical Department of the First Affiliated Hospital, Xiamen University, China.
Abstract:
Previously, we developed an orthotopic xenograft model of human glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with high EGFR expression and invasiveness in Balb/c nu/nu nude mice. Now we also developed the same orthotopic xenograft model in transgenic nude mice with green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression. The present orthotopic xenografts labeled by phycoerythrin fluorescing red showed high EGFR expression profile, and invasive behavior under a bright green-red dual-color fluorescence background. A striking advantage in the present human GBM model is that the change of tumor growth can be observed visually instead of sacrificing animals in our further antitumor therapy studies.

