Gomez-Roman, N. , Stevenson, K., Gilmour, L., Hamilton, G. and Chalmers, A. (2017) A novel 3D human glioblastoma cell culture system for modeling drug and radiation responses. Neuro-Oncology, 19(2), pp. 229-241. (doi: 10.1093/neuonc/now164) (PMID:27576873) (PMCID:PMC5463789)
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Abstract
Background. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor, with dismal prognosis. The failure of drug–radiation combinations with promising preclinical data to translate into effective clinical treatments may relate to the use of simplified 2-dimensional in vitro GBM cultures. Methods. We developed a customized 3D GBM culture system based on a polystyrene scaffold (Alvetex) that recapitulates key histological features of GBM and compared it with conventional 2D cultures with respect to their response to radiation and to molecular targeted agents for which clinical data are available. Results. In 3 patient-derived GBM lines, no difference in radiation sensitivity was observed between 2D and 3D cultures, as measured by clonogenic survival. Three different molecular targeted agents, for which robust clinical data are available were evaluated in 2D and 3D conditions: (i) temozolomide, which improves overall survival and is standard of care for GBM, exhibited statistically significant effects on clonogenic survival in both patient-derived cell lines when evaluated in the 3D model compared with only one cell line in 2D cells; (ii) bevacizumab, which has been shown to increase progression-free survival when added to standard chemoradiation in phase III clinical trials, exhibited marked radiosensitizing activity in our 3D model but had no effect on 2D cells; and (iii) erlotinib, which had no efficacy in clinical trials, displayed no activity in our 3D GBM model, but radiosensitized 2D cells. Conclusions. Our 3D model reliably predicted clinical efficacy, strongly supporting its clinical relevance and potential value in preclinical evaluation of drug–radiation combinations for GBM.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Gomez-Roman, Dr Maria and Gilmour, Dr Lesley and Hamilton, Dr Graham and Stevenson, Mrs Katrina and Chalmers, Professor Anthony |
Authors: | Gomez-Roman, N., Stevenson, K., Gilmour, L., Hamilton, G., and Chalmers, A. |
College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Cancer Sciences |
Research Group: | Translational Radiation Biology |
Journal Name: | Neuro-Oncology |
Publisher: | Oxford Journals |
ISSN: | 1522-8517 |
ISSN (Online): | 1523-5866 |
Published Online: | 30 August 2016 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 The Authors |
First Published: | First published in Translational Radiation Biology 19(2):229-241 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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