Abstract

Glial tumors, in particular those composed of astrocytes, are the most common group of primary brain tumors. The most common glial tumor is astrocytoma. The biology of glial tumors was routinely studied on immortalized cell lines. However, multiple passages result in a loss of cellular heterogeneity. Therefore, more and more scientific laboratories in their research are beginning to use primary cell lines obtained directly from the patient’s native postoperative material. The question of the timing of the genetic stability of primary cell lines remains open. A special type of genetic instability is microsatellite instability, which affects microsatellites found throughout the genome. Microsatellites have several alleles, which are determined by changes in the number of repetitions of a motif unit. Microsatellite instability is of great importance in the oncogenesis of malignant neoplasms. The aim of this work was to study the microsatellite instability of primary cell lines of poorly differentiated glial tumors at different passages in comparison with the patient’s primary tumor material. Tumor cells of primary cultures of anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma at different passages were used as material for the study. Formalin-fixed paraffin wax (FFPE) slides were used as a microsatellite control. Microsatellite analysis was performed on primary cultures of anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma using the following markers: D17S250, D2S123, D5S346, NR21, NR24, NR27, BAT25, BAT26 by PCR. Microsatellite analysis has shown that primary glioblastoma cell lines are genetically more stable than primary anaplastic astrocytoma cell lines.

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