Bladder cancer (BC) is the most common neoplasm affecting the urinary tract in human and dogs. Since dog BC resembles muscle-invasive BC in human with regards to histopathological characteristics and gene expression profiles, it is expected to become a precious research model of human muscle-invasive BC. Cancer patient-derived organoid culture can recapitulate organ structures and maintain gene expression profiles of original tumor tissues. In the previous study, we generated dog prostate cancer organoids using the urine samples. However, dog BC organoids have never been developed. We therefore tried to generate dog BC organoids using the urine samples and to check their histopathological characteristics, drug sensitivity, and gene expression profiles. Organoids from each BC dog were successfully generated, which expressed urothelial cell markers (CK7, CK20, and UPK3A) and exhibited tumorigenesis in vivo. In the cell viability assay, the responsiveness to combination treatment with anti-cancer drugs (cisplatin, vinblastine, gemcitabine or piroxicam) was markedly different in each BC organoid. In the RNA sequencing analysis, expression of basal cell markers (CK5 and DSG3) and several novel genes (MMP28, CTSE, CNN3, TFPI2, COL17A1, and AGPAT4) were upregulated in the BC organoids compared with normal bladder tissues or two-dimensional (2D) BC cell lines. These findings revealed that our established dog BC organoids might become a useful tool not only for determining the proper chemotherapy in BC diseased dogs but also identifying novel biomarkers in human muscle-invasive BC. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Cancer science. 2019 Jun 29 [Epub ahead of print]
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