Kazuaki Kameda, Ryo Yanagiya, Yuji Miyatake, Joaquim Carreras, Hiroshi Higuchi, Hiromichi Murayama, Takashi Ishida, Asahi Ito, Shinsuke Iida, Noriko Fukuhara, Hideo Harigae, Yuki Fujioka, Naoto Takahashi, Hidenori Wada, Fumihiro Ishida, Hideyuki Nakazawa, Rei Ishihara, Yuki Murakami, Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tadashi Matsuura, So Nakagawa, Sadahiro Iwabuchi, Shinichi Hashimoto, Ken-Ichi Imadome, Naoya Nakamura, Kenichi Ishizawa, Yoshinobu Kanda, Kiyoshi Ando, Ai Kotani
Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia (ANKL) is a rare lymphoid neoplasm frequently associated with Epstein-Barr virus, with a disastrously poor prognosis. Owing to the lack of samples from patients with ANKL and relevant murine models, comprehensive investigation of its pathogenesis including the tumor microenvironment (TME) has been hindered. Here we established three ANKL-patient-derived xenograft mice (PDXs), which enabled extensive analysis of tumor cells and their TME. ANKL cells primarily engrafted and proliferated in the hepatic sinusoid...
May 5, 2023: Blood