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27 August 2019 Fluorescence monitoring of rare circulating tumor cell and cluster dissemination in a multiple myeloma xenograft model in vivo
Roshani A. Patil, Xuefei Tan, Peter Bartosik, Alexandre Detappe, Judith M. Runnels, Irene M. Ghobrial, Charles P. Lin, Mark Niedre
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Abstract

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are of great interest in cancer research because of their crucial role in hematogenous metastasis. We recently developed “diffuse in vivo flow cytometry” (DiFC), a preclinical research tool for enumerating extremely rare fluorescently labeled CTCs directly in vivo. In this work, we developed a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-compatible version of DiFC and used it to noninvasively monitor tumor cell numbers in circulation in a multiple myeloma (MM) disseminated xenograft mouse model. We show that DiFC allowed enumeration of CTCs in individual mice overtime during MM growth, with sensitivity below 1  CTC mL  −  1 of peripheral blood. DiFC also revealed the presence of CTC clusters (CTCCs) in circulation to our knowledge for the first time in this model and allowed us to calculate CTCC size, frequency, and kinetics of shedding. We anticipate that the unique capabilities of DiFC will have many uses in preclinical study of metastasis, in particular, with a large number of GFP-expressing xenograft and transgenic mouse models.

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Roshani A. Patil, Xuefei Tan, Peter Bartosik, Alexandre Detappe, Judith M. Runnels, Irene M. Ghobrial, Charles P. Lin, and Mark Niedre "Fluorescence monitoring of rare circulating tumor cell and cluster dissemination in a multiple myeloma xenograft model in vivo," Journal of Biomedical Optics 24(8), 085004 (27 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.8.085004
Received: 26 March 2019; Accepted: 5 August 2019; Published: 27 August 2019
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KEYWORDS
Blood

Luminescence

Tumors

In vivo imaging

Green fluorescent protein

Near infrared

Tumor growth modeling

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