DESIGNING A MURINE MODEL OF HUMAN GLIOBLASTOMA BRAIN TUMOR: DEVELOPMENT OF A PLATFORM FOR VALIDATION USING ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY

Griffin Mess, Rasika Thombre, Max Kerensky, Eli Curry, Fariba Abhabaglou, Safwan Alomari, Henry Brem, Nicholas Theodore, Betty Tyler, Amir Manbachi

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Abstract

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a malignant brain cancer with low overall survival. Therefore, researchers are looking to augment its current therapeutic regimen, which includes surgical tumor resection, chemotherapy and radiation. A promising treatment modality, focused ultrasound, has been used as a non-invasive treatment for GBM through multiple approaches such as thermal ablation, immunomodulation, and blood brain barrier disruption. In order to develop these treatments for clinical trials, testing in animal models needs to be performed to investigate the efficacy of the treatment in complex biological environments, as well as to evaluate any side-effects. The more biologically relevant the animal model is to human anatomy, the more applicable the results will be for translation to clinical trials. Here, we report a human GBM rat model, which utilizes an IDH-wildtype, EGFRvIII mutant patient-derived xenograft in athymic rats. The in vivo tumor growth rate was assessed over a period of 20 days to evaluate reproducibility and to develop the model for future testing of FUS in the treatment of GBM.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)9780791885710
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022 - Minneapolis, Virtual, United States
Duration: Apr 11 2022Apr 14 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022

Conference

Conference2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMinneapolis, Virtual
Period4/11/224/14/22

Keywords

  • Glioblastoma
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Non-invasive
  • animal model
  • focused ultrasound

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)

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