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In vitro chemosensitivity test of human brain tumors using a three-dimensional organ culture with a collagen gel matrix

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We evaluated the usefulness of anin vitro tumor organ culture system using a specialized collagen gel matrix derived from pig skin as a chemosensitivity test for human brain tumors. Two xenograft tumors derived from human glioblastoma and medulloblastoma were examined with this system and the results were compared with data obtained from a nude mouse assay. Xenograft tumors exhibitedin vivo-like three-dimensional growth on the collagen gel matrix and had increasing incorporation of tritiated (3H)thymidine for 2 weeks. Drug sensitivity, as measured by this assay at therapeutic peak plasma concentrations of anticancer drugs, corresponded with that measured with the nude mouse assay. Chemosensitivity of 16 surgical specimens of malignant brain tumors were also examined successfully by this collagen gel matrix (CGM) assay. When the highest inhibition rate in dose-inhibition curve was equal to or greater than 50%, the tumor was regarded to be sensitive to the agent. The efficacy rates in CGM assay for 16 lesions were 25.0% (4/16) for ACNU, 67.8% (11/16) for adriamycin, 31.3% (5/16) for cisplatin, and 67.8% (11/16) for etoposide. The CGM assay has advantages as a chemosensitivity test because of its simple procedure, rapidity, high rate of evaluable tumor growth, andin vivo-like three dimensional tumor growth. Our results indicate that the CGM assay is feasible to test the chemosensitivity of malignant brain tumors.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Kure National Hospital, Kure, Japan

    Kiyoshi Yuki & Yasunori Kodama

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    Tohru Uozumi, Kaoru Kurisu & Takashi Mikami

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Yuki, K., Uozumi, T., Kodama, Y. et al. In vitro chemosensitivity test of human brain tumors using a three-dimensional organ culture with a collagen gel matrix. J Neuro-Oncol 21, 225–232 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063771

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