Challenges and prospects of patient-derived xenografts for cancer research

J Jin, K Yoshimura, M Sewastjanow-Silva, S Song… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The patient-derived xenograft (PDX) model is the in vivo standard for
cancer research as a preclinical platform. Besides its merits, we describe the general …

A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …

[HTML][HTML] Endometriosis and endometriosis-associated cancers: new insights into the molecular mechanisms of ovarian cancer development

A Dawson, ML Fernandez, M Anglesio… - …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Endometriosis is a fascinating disease that we strive to better understand. Molecular
techniques are shedding new light on many important aspects of this disease: from …

Keap1 loss promotes Kras-driven lung cancer and results in dependence on glutaminolysis

R Romero, VI Sayin, SM Davidson, MR Bauer… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Treating KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) remains a major challenge in cancer
treatment given the difficulties associated with directly inhibiting the KRAS oncoprotein. One …

Chemosensitive relapse in small cell lung cancer proceeds through an EZH2-SLFN11 axis

EE Gardner, BH Lok, VE Schneeberger, P Desmeules… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer is initially highly responsive to cisplatin and etoposide but in almost
every case becomes rapidly chemoresistant, leading to death within 1 year. We modeled …

Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of a library of small cell lung cancer patient-derived xenografts

R Caeser, JV Egger, S Chavan, ND Socci… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Access to clinically relevant small cell lung cancer (SCLC) tissue is limited because surgical
resection is rare in metastatic SCLC. Patient-derived xenografts (PDX) and circulating tumor …

Toward improved in vitro models of human cancer

JM Ayuso, KY Park, M Virumbrales-Muñoz… - APL …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Cancer is a leading cause of death across the world and continues to increase in incidence.
Despite years of research, multiple tumors (eg, glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer) still have …

Proteome-wide Profiling of Asymmetric Dimethylated Arginine in Human Breast Tumors

M Ma, F Liu, HN Miles, EJ Kim, L Fields… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Arginine methylation catalyzed by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is a
prevalent post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates diverse cellular processes …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer organoids, a promising model still with long way to go

H Ma, Y Zhu, R Zhou, Y Yu, Z Xiao, H Zhang - Critical Reviews in Oncology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lung cancer organoids (LCOs) have sprung up in more and more researching fields,
because of their ability to recapitulate the three-dimensional structure and functions of the in …

Modelling of pancreatic cancer biology: transcriptomic signature for 3D PDX-derived organoids and primary cell line organoid development

SR Nelson, C Zhang, S Roche, F O'Neill, N Swan… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
With a five-year survival rate of 9%, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the
deadliest of all cancers. The rapid mortality makes PDAC difficult to research, and inspires a …