Table 1. Structural and functional comparison of SP and TP tumors.
SP vs TP | Subcutaneous (s.c.) TP vs orthotopic (ortho.)TP | References | ||
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Vasculature fragility | TP > SP | Ortho > s.c. | Fenton et al. (2001); Drees et al. (2015); Guerin et al. (2019); Fung et al. (2015) | |
Vasculature growth rate | TP > SP | This review | ||
Tumor architecture | SP > TP SP = TP |
This review Weiss et al. (2017); Guerin et al. (2019) |
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Tumor growth rate | TP > SP TP = SP |
Wexler et al. (1965); McCredie et al. (1971); Rous (1914); Burton and Begg (1961); Zhu et al. (2017) | ||
TGFβ abundance | SP > TP | Ortho > s.c. | Guerin et al. (2019); Zhu et al. (2017); Choudhury et al. (2004) | |
Spontaneous immune response | TP > SP | Anders et al. (2017) | ||
Tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) renewal rate | TP > SP | Strachan et al. (2013); Franklin et al. (2014) | ||
Myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) abundance | SP > TP | Ortho > s.c. | Coffelt and de Visser (2015); Zhu et al. (2017); Guerin et al. (2019); Devaud et al. (2014) | |
Sensitivity to | Immunogenic cell death (ICD)-based chemotherapy | TP only | Ciampricotti et al. (2012); Coffelt and de Visser (2015) | |
Stimulator of interferon genes protein (STING) agonists | TP only | Guerin et al. (2019) | ||
Adoptive transfer of T cells | TP > SP | Zhu et al. (2017) | ||
Vaccination | TP only | Old et al. (1961); Hirsch (1962); Reilly et al. (2000); Ercolini et al. (2003) | ||
Cortisone | TP > SP | Burton and Begg (1961) | ||
Interleukin-12 (IL-12) | TP only | Lee et al. (2002) |