Mouse small cell lung cancer model

A mouse model for human small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) has been developed based on evidence in human tumors that the tumor suppressor functions of RB and p53 are defective in more than 90% of SCLC cases. We also developed another mouse model also combines loss of p130 (Rbl2), an RB-related gene, with deletion of RB and p53. These two mouse tumors were shown to closely resemble human SCLC. The goal of this array experiment is to assess genome-wide gene expression of those mouse tumors and determine the similarity of the mouse models to human SCLC. Gene expression from Mouse Rb/p53 ( n=10 ) and Rb/p53/p130 primary tumors ( n=3 ) as well as tumor-free adult mouse lungs ( n=2 ) was measured using the Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430-2.0 arrays.