J Korean Thyroid Assoc.
2011 May;4(1):30-38.
Model Development of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by BRAFV600E Transgenic Mice
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- 1Department of Pathology, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Korea.
- 2Research Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. minhos@cnu.ac.kr
Abstract
- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The BRAFV600E mutation has been regarded as the leading cause of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). However, the multi-step carcinogenic process induced by BRAFV600E has been remained to be elucidated in thyroid gland. In this study, to investigate staged development of papillary thyroid carcinoma, we observed the histo-pathological findings of thyroid gland from BRAFV600E transgenic mice with a period of 60 weeks.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We histologically inspected 3, 9, 20, 27, 39, 44, 48 and 60 week old BRAFV600E transgenic mice derived from FVB/N background mice with a bovine thyroglobulin promoter which are providing thyroid specific BRAFV600E expression.
RESULTS
Thyroid glands from 3 and 9 week old BRAFV600E transgenic mice were enlarged and showed abnormal histologic feature such as distorted follicular architectures. The 20 and 27 week old BRAFV600E transgenic mice showed irregularly enlarged thyroid gland sprouting out above the carotid arteries. Thyroid gland derived from 39 week old mice showed reduced formation of intact follicular structure and increased solid area. Thyroid glands were entirely replaced by firm tumor mass composed of poorly differentiated cell at 44 weeks. Interestingly, we could observe tracheal invasion, surrounding muscle invasion in thyroid gland from 48 week old mice and detect lung metastasis in 60 week old mice.
CONCLUSION
Thyroid specific expression of BRAFV600E induced staged development of thyroid cancer. This finding may support that BRAFV600E have a role in entire carcinogenic process such as tumor initiation, development and progression.
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