STAR Protocols (Dec 2021)

Preclinical testing of chimeric antigen receptor T cells in neuroblastoma mouse models

  • Nan Li,
  • Rosa Nguyen,
  • Carol J. Thiele,
  • Mitchell Ho

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
p. 100942

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Summary: The translation of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for pediatric solid tumors is limited by the lack of preclinical models that fully recapitulate solid tumor biology. We describe steps to implement neuroblastoma metastatic and orthotopic mouse models. We delineate an analysis pipeline to quantify the efficacy and determine the immunological characteristics of both CAR T and tumor cells in these models. Both mouse models can be applied to evaluate other experimental therapies for neuroblastoma.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Li et al. (2021).

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