12. Treatment of Murine Transplanted Subcutaneous Tumors Using Systemic Drug Administration
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In vitro data have shown an increased cytotoxic drug uptake into electropermeabilized cells in suspension, leading to a marked
cytotoxicity increase (1). Preclinical experiments were required to demonstrate the in vivo applicability of these observations. Obviously, the most
convenient laboratory animal model to test new antitumor treatments is the mouse. Indeed, there exist many tumors of different
histological types which can be transplanted in mice, either in immunocompetent mice in the case of syngeneic tumors or in
immunodepressed mice in the case of allogeneic or xenogeneic tumors. From a practical point of view, mice have the advantage
to be rather cheap and to allow a large number of experiments. Moreover, murine tumors are generally easy to transplant, grow
rapidly, and can be conveniently followed for their evolution, at least in the case of subcutaneous tumors. Finally, murine
subcutaneous tumors are well adapted to test the antitumor effects of electrochemotherapy since they allow the use of a rather
simple material to conveniently apply transcutaneous permeabilizing electric pulses.
Affiliation(s): (3) Section di Biophysique des Proetines et des Membranes, Department do Biologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire, Gif/Yvette, France
(4) UMR 1772 CNRS, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France
(4) UMR 1772 CNRS, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine | Volume: 37 | Pub. Date: Feb-18-2000 | Page Range: 247-252 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-080-2:247
Subject: Cell Biology
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