In:
Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 73, No. 8_Supplement ( 2013-04-15), p. 3916-3916
Abstract:
Glioblastomas belong to the tumors with the worst prognosis. One reason for the short survival time after diagnosis is the invasiveness of these tumors, which makes a total resection impossible, and hinders effective local therapies. So far, the exact role of the resident microglia and blood macrophages in the process of tumor cell invasion remains unclear. We investigated the role of these immune cells using CX3CR1 transgenic BL/6 mice. In heterozygous CX3CR1-GFP mice, the function of microglia or macrophages is not impaired but both cell types can be tracked over time by stable GFP expression; homozygous mice have both GFP-labeled microglia and macrophages, but lack a functional CX3CR1 chemokine receptor. Both mice strains received a chronic cranial window with subsequent stereotactic Gl261 glioma cell injection into the brain three weeks later. The invasion dynamics of the stably dsRed-transduced tumor cells was monitored using intravital two photon microscopy. In homozygous animals, tumor cells migrated faster than in heterozygous mice (4,6 μm/h vs. 3 μm/h, p & lt;0.001). Both groups showed a perivascular tumor cell invasion pattern. Moreover, single microglia or macrophage cells showed intracellular RFP-positive fragments as a sign of glioma cell phagocytosis; this was observed only in heterozygous animals and not in homozygous animals lacking a functional CX3CR1 receptor. To decipher the role of resident microglia vs. macrophages in glioma invasion, blood macrophages were depleted in heterozygous CX3CR1 mice by intravenous injection of clodronate liposomes. In those mice tumor cell invasion was dramatically reduced. Pre-existing brain resident microglia was not affected by clodronate treatment. All in all, these results implicate a CX3CR1-dependent proinvasive role for blood-borne macrophages in glioma cell invasion in the live mouse brain, whereas residential microglia seems to exert anti-glioma effects. This microglia - macrophage dichotomy has implications for therapies aiming at inhibition of glioma invasion, via CX3CR1 targeting and beyond. Citation Format: Matthias Osswald, Miriam Gramlich, Yunxiang Liao, Wolfgang Wick, Frank Winkler. Differential roles of microglia and macrophages for glioma progression. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2013 Apr 6-10; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2013;73(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 3916. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2013-3916
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0008-5472
,
1538-7445
DOI:
10.1158/1538-7445.AM2013-3916
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Publication Date:
2013
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