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Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts
The unusually dense stroma of pancreatic cancers is thought to play an important role in their biological aggression. The presence of hypoxia is also considered an adverse prognostic factor. Although it is usually assumed that this is the result of effects of hypoxia on the epithelial component, it...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24577243 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers6010459 |
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author | Lohse, Ines Lourenco, Corey Ibrahimov, Emin Pintilie, Melania Tsao, Ming-Sound Hedley, David W. |
author_facet | Lohse, Ines Lourenco, Corey Ibrahimov, Emin Pintilie, Melania Tsao, Ming-Sound Hedley, David W. |
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description | The unusually dense stroma of pancreatic cancers is thought to play an important role in their biological aggression. The presence of hypoxia is also considered an adverse prognostic factor. Although it is usually assumed that this is the result of effects of hypoxia on the epithelial component, it is possible that hypoxia exerts indirect effects via the tumor stroma. We therefore measured hypoxia in the stroma of a series of primary pancreatic cancer xenografts. Nine patient-derived pancreatic xenografts representing a range of oxygenation levels were labeled by immunohistochemistry for EF5 and analyzed using semi-automated pattern recognition software. Hypoxia in the tumor and stroma was correlated with tumor growth and metastatic potential. The extent of hypoxia varied from 1%–39% between the different models. EF5 labeling in the stroma ranged from 0–20% between models, and was correlated with the level of hypoxia in the tumor cell area, but not microvessel density. Tumor hypoxia correlated with spontaneous metastasis formation with the exception of one hypoxic model that showed disproportionately low levels of hypoxia in the stroma and was non-metastatic. Our results demonstrate that hypoxia exists in the stroma of primary pancreatic cancer xenografts and suggest that stromal hypoxia impacts the metastatic potential. |
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spelling | pubmed-39806172014-04-09 Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts Lohse, Ines Lourenco, Corey Ibrahimov, Emin Pintilie, Melania Tsao, Ming-Sound Hedley, David W. Cancers (Basel) Article The unusually dense stroma of pancreatic cancers is thought to play an important role in their biological aggression. The presence of hypoxia is also considered an adverse prognostic factor. Although it is usually assumed that this is the result of effects of hypoxia on the epithelial component, it is possible that hypoxia exerts indirect effects via the tumor stroma. We therefore measured hypoxia in the stroma of a series of primary pancreatic cancer xenografts. Nine patient-derived pancreatic xenografts representing a range of oxygenation levels were labeled by immunohistochemistry for EF5 and analyzed using semi-automated pattern recognition software. Hypoxia in the tumor and stroma was correlated with tumor growth and metastatic potential. The extent of hypoxia varied from 1%–39% between the different models. EF5 labeling in the stroma ranged from 0–20% between models, and was correlated with the level of hypoxia in the tumor cell area, but not microvessel density. Tumor hypoxia correlated with spontaneous metastasis formation with the exception of one hypoxic model that showed disproportionately low levels of hypoxia in the stroma and was non-metastatic. Our results demonstrate that hypoxia exists in the stroma of primary pancreatic cancer xenografts and suggest that stromal hypoxia impacts the metastatic potential. MDPI 2014-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3980617/ /pubmed/24577243 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers6010459 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lohse, Ines Lourenco, Corey Ibrahimov, Emin Pintilie, Melania Tsao, Ming-Sound Hedley, David W. Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title | Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title_full | Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title_short | Assessment of Hypoxia in the Stroma of Patient-Derived Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts |
title_sort | assessment of hypoxia in the stroma of patient-derived pancreatic tumor xenografts |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24577243 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers6010459 |
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