PUBLICATION
A Zebrafish Live Imaging Model Reveals Differential Responses of Microglia Toward Glioblastoma Cells In Vivo
- Authors
- Hamilton, L., Astell, K.R., Velikova, G., Sieger, D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-161026-5
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Zebrafish 13(6): 523-534 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Sieger, Dirk
- Keywords
- brain tumor, glioma, macrophages, microglia
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation
- Glioblastoma/physiopathology*
- Humans
- Macrophages/cytology
- Macrophages/microbiology
- Microglia/physiology*
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Models, Animal
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 27779463 Full text @ Zebrafish
Citation
Hamilton, L., Astell, K.R., Velikova, G., Sieger, D. (2016) A Zebrafish Live Imaging Model Reveals Differential Responses of Microglia Toward Glioblastoma Cells In Vivo. Zebrafish. 13(6):523-534.
Abstract
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and deadliest form of brain cancer. Glioblastomas are infiltrated by a high number of microglia, which promote tumor growth and surrounding tissue invasion. However, it is unclear how microglia and glioma cells physically interact and if there are differences, depending on glioma cell type. Hence, we have developed a novel live imaging assay to study microglia-glioma interactions in vivo in the zebrafish brain. We transplanted well-established human glioblastoma cell lines, U87 and U251, into transgenic zebrafish lines with labelled macrophages/microglia. Our confocal live imaging results show distinct interactions between microglia and U87, as well as U251 glioblastoma cells that differ in number and nature. Importantly these interactions do not appear to be antitumoral as zebrafish microglia do not engulf and phagocytose the human glioblastoma cells. Finally, xenotransplants into the irf8-/- zebrafish mutant that lacks microglia, as well as pharmacological inhibition of the CSF-1 receptor (CSF-1R) on microglia, confirm a prominent role for zebrafish microglia in promoting human glioblastoma cell growth. This new model will be an important tool for drug screening and the development of future immunotherapeutics targeting microglia within glioma.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping