Application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy protocols to pre-clinical tumor models

Curr Protoc Pharmacol. 2007 Sep:Chapter 14:Unit 14.7. doi: 10.1002/0471141755.ph1407s38.

Abstract

This unit (1) provides background into understanding how agents that target specific molecules or receptors (molecular-targeted agents), in particular, agents affecting the tumor vasculature (perivasculature network in tumors), interact with and modify radiation therapy; (2) details factors affecting interpretation of results in murine tumor model experiments utilizing radiation therapy and drug combinations; and (3) provides specific protocols for the application of radiation therapy, both alone and in combination with chemotherapy and/or molecular-targeted agents.

MeSH terms

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Cell Hypoxia
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Mice, SCID
  • Neoplasms, Experimental / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasms, Experimental / metabolism
  • Neoplasms, Experimental / radiotherapy*
  • Oxygen Consumption
  • Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays

Substances

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18