Melanoma models

Features

  • Orthotopic transplantation of intact tissue

  • Metastatic sites

                   lymph nodes

                   lung

                   skeleton

                   brain

                   kidney 

                  adrenal glands

  • Green Fluorescent Protein expression

Examples

 

Human LOX-1-GFP melanoma metastasized to lung (A), lymp node (B), bone (C) and adrenal gland (D) of nude mouse.

 

Yang, M., Jiang, P., An, Z., Baranov, E., Li, L., Hasegawa, S., Al-Tuwaijri, M., Chishima, T., Shimada, H., Moossa, A.R., Hoffman, R.M.  Genetically fluorescent melanoma bone and organ metastasis models. Clinical Cancer Res. 5, 3549-3559, 1999.