STUDY PROTOCOL
EVALUATION OF ANTI-CANCER POTENTIAL
OF PLANT EXTRACT(S)/HERBAL FORMULATION(S) USING HUMAN CANCER CELL LINE ORTHOTOPIC
MODEL IN IMMUNECOMPRAMISED ANIMALS
1.0 TEST SYSTEM DETAILS:
Species
: Mus Musculus
Strain : Athymic Nude/ SCID
Age : 6-10 weeks
Body
Wight : 20-25 g
Sex : Male or Female
No. of
animals : 8 /Group
2.0 ALLOCATION OF GROUPS:
Groups |
Treatment |
Dose; ROA |
No. of Animals |
G1 |
Normal
Control |
Normal
saline or 0.25% Na-CMC |
8 |
G2 |
Reference
Drug- Paclitaxel |
10
mpk; i.p. |
8 |
G3 |
Plant
Extract/Herbal Formulation-1 |
X
mpk; p.o. |
8 |
G4 |
Plant
Extract/Herbal Formulation-1 |
XX
mpk; p.o. |
8 |
G5 |
Plant
Extract/Herbal Formulation-2 |
X
mpk; p.o. |
8 |
G6 |
Plant
Extract/Herbal Formulation-2 |
XX
mpk; p.o. |
8 |
Extra 12 animals will be taken
considering the tumor take up rate
Cell lines: HCT116, PANC-1,
MDA-MB231,
3.0 METHOD:
·
Animals shall be procured from
the CPCSEA authorized vendor.
·
Animals shall be quarantined
for 1 week as per the in house SOP.
·
Healthy animals will be
selected, randomized based on body weight and divided into 6 different groups
consisting of 8 animals each.
·
Cell
Culture:
·
Human cancer cell line will be
procured from American Type Culture
Collection USA, NCCS Pune or from authorized vendors cultured from suitable
media supplemented with FBS or FCS or as applicable.
·
The
cells were incubated in a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere at 37°C and harvested
during the logarithmic growth phase.
·
The
1-15X106/100µL cells in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or serum
free media will be and injected surgically into the cell line specific organ.
·
Drug treatment will be given
as follows:
·
Group G1 animal will be
treated as normal control and treated with normal saline or Na- CMC.
·
Animals of group G2 will be
treated intraperitoneally with paclitaxel weekly twice at the dose of 10mpk.
·
Group G3, G4, G5 and G6
animals will be treated with plant extract(s)/herbal formulation at different
dose levels.
·
Tumor progression was followed
by in vivo optical imaging system.
·
Animal’s blood will be
withdrawn via retro orbital plexus and serum will be stored until analyzed.
·
All the animals will be
humanely sacrificed at the end of experiment.
4.0 END
POINT PARAMETER(S):
·
Clinical Observation
·
Body weight change
·
Tumor images
· Tumor metastasis
5.0 REFERENCE(S):
5.1 Selene Nunez-Cruz, Denise C. Connolly, and Nathalie Scholler. An Orthotopic Model of Serous Ovarian Cancer
in Immunocompetent Mice for in vivo Tumor Imaging and
Monitoring of Tumor Immune Responses. J Vis Exp. 2010; (45): 2146.
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