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Multispectral Fluorescence Imaging Allows for Distinctive Topographic Assessment and Subclassification of Tumor-Infiltrating and Surrounding Immune Cells.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
  • Claudia Wickenhauser
  • Daniel Bethmann
  • Zipei Feng, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W Franz Cancer Center, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA.
  • Shawn M Jensen, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Center and Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
  • Carmen Ballesteros-Merino, Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W Franz Cancer Center, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA.
  • Chiara Massa
  • Andre Steven
  • Marcus Bauer
  • Peter Kaatzsch
  • Nikolaos Pazaitis
  • Georgiana Toma
  • Carlo Bifulco, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR
  • Bernard A Fox, Chiles Research Institute Providence Portland Medical Center
  • Barbara Seliger
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Keywords
  • Fluorescence microscopy,
  • Immune cells,
  • Multispectral imaging,
  • Phenotyping,
  • genomics
Disciplines
Abstract

Histomorphology has significantly changed over the last decades due to technological achievements in immunohistochemistry (IHC) for the visualization of specific proteins and in molecular pathology, particularly in the field of in situ hybridization of small oligonucleotides and amplification of DNA and RNA amplicons. With an increased availability of suitable methods, the demands regarding the observer of histomorphological slides were the supply of complex quantitative data as well as more information about protein expression and cell-cell interactions in tissue sections. Advances in fluorescence-based multiplexed IHC techniques, such as multispectral imaging (MSI), allow the quantification of multiple proteins at the same tissue section. In histopathology, it is a well-known technique for over a decade yet harboring serious problems concerning quantitative preciseness and tissue autofluorescence of multicolor staining when using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue specimen. In recent years, milestones in tissue preparation, fluorescent dyes, hardware imaging, and software analysis were achieved including automated tissue segmentation (e.g., tumor vs. stroma) as well as in cellular and subcellular multiparameter analysis.This chapter covers the role that MSI plays in anatomic pathology for the analysis of FFPE tissue sections, discusses the technical aspects of MSI, and provides a review of its application in the characterization of immune cell infiltrates and beyond regarding its prognostic and predictive value and its use for guidance of clinical decisions for immunotherapeutic strategies.

Specialty
Oncology
Specialty
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
Citation Information
Claudia Wickenhauser, Daniel Bethmann, Zipei Feng, Shawn M Jensen, et al.. "Multispectral Fluorescence Imaging Allows for Distinctive Topographic Assessment and Subclassification of Tumor-Infiltrating and Surrounding Immune Cells." Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2019)
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