Abstract
The successful treatment of primary and secondary bone tumors in a huge number of cases remains one of the major unsolved challenges in modern medicine. Malignant primary bone tumor growth predominantly occurs in younger people, whereas older people predominantly suffer from secondary bone tumors since up to 85% of the most frequently occurring malignant solid tumors, such as lung, mammary, and prostate carcinomas, metastasize into the bone. It is well known that a tumor’s course may be altered by its surrounding tissue. For this reason, reported here is the protocol for the surgical preparation of a cranial bone window in mice as well as the method to implant tumors in this bone window for further investigations of angiogenesis and other microcirculatory parameters in orthotopically growing primary or secondary bone tumors using intravital microscopy. Intravital microscopy represents an internationally accepted and sophisticated experimental method to study angiogenesis, microcirculation, and many other parameters in a wide variety of neoplastic and nonneoplastic tissues. Since most physiologic and pathophysiologic processes are active and dynamic events, one of the major strengths of chronic animal models using intravital microscopy is the possibility of monitoring the regions of interest in vivo continuously up to several weeks with high spatial and temporal resolution. In addition, after the termination of experiments, tissue samples can be excised easily and further examined by various in vitro methods such as histology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular biology.
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Sckell, A., Klenke, F.M. (2009). The Cranial Bone Window Model: Studying Angiogenesis of Primary and Secondary Bone Tumors by Intravital Microscopy. In: Murray, C., Martin, S. (eds) Angiogenesis Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 467. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-241-0_22
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