Ultrasound-Guided Approaches to Improve Orthotopic Mouse Xenograft Models for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

G Bou About (1, 2) , E Thiebault (1, 2) , M Wattenhofer-Donze (1, 2) , H Jacobs (1, 2) , A Guimond (1, 2) , T Sorg (1, 2) , Eric Robinet (3) , Thomas Baumert (3) , Laurent Monassier (4, 1, 2) , Yann Herault (5, 1, 2)

1 ICS - Institut Clinique de la Souris
2 PHENOMIN - French National Infrastructure for Mouse Phenogenomics
3 Institut de Chirurgie guidée par l'Image
4 LNPCV - Laboratoire de neurobiologie et pharmacologie cardiovasculaire
5 IGBMC - Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. While curative approaches for early stage HCC exist, effective treatment options for advanced HCC are lacking. Furthermore, there are no efficient chemopreventive strategies to limit HCC development once cirrhosis is established. One challenge for drug development is unsatisfactory animal models. In this article, we describe an orthotopic xenograft mouse model of human liver cancer cell lines through image-guided injection into the liver. This technique provides a less invasive yet highly efficient approach to engraft human HCC into mouse liver. Similarly, image-guided injections are used to deliver chemotherapeutics locally, enabling reduction in potential systemic adverse effects, while reducing the required dose for a therapeutic effect. In summary, this image-guided strategy provides a novel and convenient approach to improve current HCC mouse models. (c) 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Mots clés: Huh-7; doxorubicin; echo-guided injection; echography; hepatocarcinoma; orthotopic

Domaines: Cancer

G Bou About, E Thiebault, M Wattenhofer-Donze, H Jacobs, A Guimond, et al.. Ultrasound-Guided Approaches to Improve Orthotopic Mouse Xenograft Models for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Current Protocols in Mouse Biology, 2019, 9 (2), ⟨10.1002/cpmo.62⟩. ⟨hal-02379915⟩