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Experimental Therapeutics

Development of a Novel Spontaneous Metastasis Model of Human Osteosarcoma Transplanted Orthotopically into Bone of Athymic Mice

Örjan Berlin, Dvorit Samid, Rakesh Donthineni-Rao, Wayne Akeson, David Amiel and Virgil L. Woods Jr.
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DOI:  Published October 1993
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There is a pressing need for in vivo models in which potential antitumor agents can be tested for their ability to inhibit the growth and metastatic spread of human sarcomas. A recent advance in this regard has been the development of a v-Ki-ras-oncogene-transformed human osteosarcoma cell line (KRIB) that efficiently colonizes the lungs of athymic nude mice when cells (1 × 105) are administered by i.v. injection. In the present study, we have utilized this cell line to develop a spontaneous metastasis model in which a small number of tumor cells are injected into the tibial bones of athymic mice. When as few as 1000 KRIB cells are orthotopically implanted into the tibial bones of nude mice, bone tumors, which are radiographically and histologically similar to primary human osteosarcoma, develop within 4 weeks. Furthermore, as in the human disease, cells from these primary tumors subsequently seed the animals' lungs, resulting in reproducible and quantifiable pulmonary metastasis evident both upon gross inspection of the lungs and histologically 6 weeks after tumor inoculation. Surgical amputation of the tumor inoculation site up to 2 weeks after tumor injection prevents pulmonary metastasis, indicating that substantial local (tibial) growth and invasion of the primary tumor for at least 2 weeks is required for subsequent metastasis. Implantation of s.c. 5000 KRIB cells fails to produce local or metastatic tumors. We anticipate that this model will prove to be a powerful tool with which to study the mechanisms of human osteosarcoma growth and pulmonary metastasis, and to assess the efficacy of promising therapeutic agents.

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  • ↵1 These studies were supported by NIH Grants CA 58527, CA 28896, HL30480, AGO7996, AR 28467, AR07484, AR04115, and AR34264; The Swedish Cancer Society; Faculty of Medicine, University of Göteborg, Sweden; The Assar Gabrielsson Foundation, The Swedish Orthopaedic Association; The Swedish Society of Medicine; The W:6 Society; and a grant from the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation.

  • ↵2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Section of Orthopaedic Oncology, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgren Hospital, S-41345, Göteborg, Sweden.

  • Received March 29, 1993.
  • Accepted August 4, 1993.
  • ©1993 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Development of a Novel Spontaneous Metastasis Model of Human Osteosarcoma Transplanted Orthotopically into Bone of Athymic Mice
Örjan Berlin, Dvorit Samid, Rakesh Donthineni-Rao, Wayne Akeson, David Amiel and Virgil L. Woods Jr.
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Development of a Novel Spontaneous Metastasis Model of Human Osteosarcoma Transplanted Orthotopically into Bone of Athymic Mice
Örjan Berlin, Dvorit Samid, Rakesh Donthineni-Rao, Wayne Akeson, David Amiel and Virgil L. Woods Jr.
Cancer Res October 15 1993 (53) (20) 4890-4895;
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