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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Metastasis Rev. 2016 Dec;35(4):547–573. doi: 10.1007/s10555-016-9653-x

Table 3.

Transplant conditions

Transplant Condition Evaluated
Stable Take Rate By Patient Populationa
Number Of PDX Made By Subtype
Take Rate By Clinical Subtype (Percent)
Institution Tissue Type Host
Mouse
Strain
Estradiol
Used?
Immortalized
Human
Fibroblasts?
Matrigel/
Cultrex?
Fragment (F)
or
Dissociated
(D) Cells
Tissue
Previously Cryo-
preserved?
Transplant
Location
Patients
Attempted
Total
Patients
Yielding A
PDX Line
Overall Take
Rate
(Percent)
ER+
(Including
HER2+)
HER2+ Only "Triple
Negative"
ER+
(Including
HER2+)
HER2+ Only "Triple
Negative"
References
Baylor College of Medicine PT NSG Pellet No No F No CFP 32 6 18.8 1 1 4 6 20 36 Zhang et al (2013) Cancer Res. 4885–4897
PT SCID/Bg Pellet No No F No CFP 70 15 21.4 1 2 12 2 40 54 Zhang et al (2013) Cancer Res. 4885–4897
PT SCID/Bg No No No F No CFP 38 1 2.6 0 0 1 0 0 nr Zhang et al (2013) Cancer Res. 4885–4897
PT SCID/Bg Pellet Yes No F No CFP 29 1 3.4 0 0 1 0 0 nr Zhang et al (2013) Cancer Res. 4885–4897
PT SCID/Bg Pellet No Yes F No IFP 19 6 31.6 nr nr nr nr nr nr Unpublished
PE/AS SCID/Bg Pellet No No F No CFP 4 4 100.0 2 0 2 100 nd 100 Zhang et al (2013) Cancer Res. 4885–4897; Unpublished
PT SCID/Bg Pellet No No F Yes CFP 22 3 13.6 nr nr nr nr nr nr Unpublished
PT SCID/Bg Pellet No Yes F Yes CFP 30 4 13.3 nr nr nr nr nr nr Unpublished
PT SCID/Bg Pellet No Yes F Yes IFP 30 6 20.0 nr nr nr nr nr nr Unpublished
PT SCID/Bg E2 Water No Yes F Yes CFP 30 3 10.0 nr nr nr nr nr nr Unpublished
Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical
Research IDIBELL (SPAIN)
PT NSG No No No F No CFP 13 6 46.2 0 0 6 NA NA 86 Unpublished
PT NOD/SCID Pellet No No F No CFP 40 2 5.0 2 0 0 7 NA 0 Gomez-Miragaya et al (Submitted)
PE Nude No No Yes D No IFP 6 3 50.0 1 0 2 33 NA 66 Gomez-Miragaya et al (Submitted)
British Columbia Cancer Agency
(CANADA)
PT NSG/NRG No No No D/F Yes for some SQ-F 76 40 44.7 13 6 19 23 22 55 Eirew et al, Nature 2015; Unpublished.
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De
Lausanne (CH)
PT NSG No No No D No ID 2 2 100.0 1 0 1 100 NA 100 Sflomos et al. (2016) Cancer Cell 14;29(3):407–22
Institut Bergonié (FR) PT NSG Pellet (ER+) No No D Yes ID 11 4 36.4 3 1f NA 38 33 NA Richard et al (2016) J Pathol DOI: 10.1002/path.4772
Institut Curie (FR) PT/OM Swiss Nude E2 Water No No F No SQ-S 969 121 12.5 54 9 58 7 21 40 Hatem et al. Oncotarget 2016
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) (USA) PT NSG Pellet No No F No SQ-F 220 29 13.2 1c 1 25 nr nr nr Unpublished
MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA)
- Meric Bernstam
nr Nude Pellet (ER+) No No F No SQ-F 47 13 27.7 6d 0 7 18 NA 58 McAuliffe et al (2015) PLOS One 10(9): e0136851.
MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA)
- Piwnica-Worms
PT NOD/SCID No Yes Yes D No IFP 54 23 42.6 0 0 26 NA NA 48 Unpublishedb
University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus (USA)
PT/PE/AS
PT/PE/AS
NOD/SCID
NSG
Pellet
Pellet
No
No
Yes
Yes
F
F
No
No
IFP
IFP
14
95
4
21
28.6
22.1
3
9
0
1
1
11
nr
16
NA
nr
nr
57
Kabos et al (2012) Breast Cancer Res Treat. Sep;135(2):415-32
Kabos et al (2012) Breast Cancer Res Treat. Sep;135(2):415–32
University of Manchester Institute
of Cancer Sciences (UK)
PT NSG E2 Water or
Pellet
No Yes (D);
No (F)
D/F No SQ-F 120 13 10.8 5 1 6 42 100 86 Eyre R., Alferez DG. et al. 2016 (in press Journal of Mammary
Gland Biology and Neoplasia [JMGBN])
PE NSG E2 Water or
Pellet
No YES D No SQ-F 9 4 44.4 3 0 1 25 NA 14 "
AS NSG E2 Water or
Pellet
No YES D No SQ-F 15 3 20.0 4 0 0 33 NA NA "
University of Michigan (USA) PT NSG Pellet No Yes F Yes IFP 38 13 34.2 1 1 11e 16 33 84 Al Haj (2003) Nature; and unpublished
PE NOD/SCID Pellet yes yes D nr nr nr 5 nr 2 1 2 nr nr nr
PT NOD/SCID Pellet yes yes D/F nr nr nr 3 nr 1 0 2 nr nr nr
University of Utah Huntsman -
Cancer Institute (USA)
PT/PE/AS NOD/SCID Beeswax
Pellet (ER+)
No Yes
(PE/AS); No
(PT)
D/F No CFP 51 16 31.4 10 2 8 37 18 40 DeRose et al (2011) Nat Med. 17(11):1514–1521;
DeRose et al (2013) Curr Prot Pharmacol. 4.23.1–14.23.43;
Sikora et al. (2014) Cancer Res. 74(5):1463–1474.
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research (WEHI) (AU)
PT/OM NSG Si-pellet No No F No IFP 298 59 20.8 20 6 36 10 19 56 Oakes et al (2012) PNAS 109(8):2766–71;
Vaillant et al (2013) Cancer Cell 24(1):120–9;
Nolan et al (2016) Nature Medicine Jun 20. doi: 10.1038/nm.4118; Unpublished
Washington University (USA) PT/OM
PT/OM
NSG
NSG
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
F
F
No
No
CFP
IFP
74
313
12
56
16.2
17.9
3
26
1
3
9
31
nr
nr
nr
nr
nr
nr
Ding et al (2010) Nature 464(7291):999–1005;
Li et al (2013) Cell Rep. 4(6):1116–30 ; Unpublished

27.0 27.8 57.6

Average
a

Defined as "stable" through passage 3

b

Defined as "stable" at passage 2

c

5 pending marker data

d

All low positivity

e

Includes 2 TNBC that converted to HER2+ upon passage