Humanized mice as a valuable pre-clinical model for cancer immunotherapy research

MM Cogels, R Rouas, GE Ghanem, P Martinive… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors opened new horizons in cancer treatment. Clinical
trials for novel immunotherapies or unexplored combination regimens either need years of …

Purification and functional characterization of novel human skeletal stem cell lineages

MY Hoover, TH Ambrosi, HM Steininger, LS Koepke… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Human skeletal stem cells (hSSCs) hold tremendous therapeutic potential for developing
new clinical strategies to effectively combat congenital and age-related musculoskeletal …

Cancer cell CD44 mediates macrophage/monocyte-driven regulation of head and neck cancer stem cells

KE Gomez, FL Wu, SB Keysar, JJ Morton, B Miller… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) cooperate with
cancer stem cells (CSC) to maintain stemness. We recently identified cluster of …

Building the next generation of humanized hemato-lymphoid system mice

T Martinov, KM McKenna, WH Tan, EJ Collins… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since the late 1980s, mice have been repopulated with human hematopoietic cells to study
the fundamental biology of human hematopoiesis and immunity, as well as a broad range of …

Mouse tumor-bearing models as preclinical study platforms for oral squamous cell carcinoma

Q Li, H Dong, G Yang, Y Song, Y Mou, Y Ni - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Preclinical animal models of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) have been extensively
studied in recent years. Investigating the pathogenesis and potential therapeutic strategies …

Mouse models for immuno-oncology

M Bosenberg, ET Liu, IY Chun, K Palucka - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Realizing the clinical promise of cancer immunotherapy is hindered by gaps in our
knowledge of in vivo mechanisms underlying treatment response as well as treatment …

Generation of orthotopic patient-derived xenografts in humanized mice for evaluation of emerging targeted therapies and immunotherapy combinations for melanoma

C Yan, CA Nebhan, N Saleh, R Shattuck-Brandt… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patient-derived xenografts (PDX) are valuable models in preclinical
oncology drug development. However, they are not well suited for testing immune-based …

Mouse models for immune checkpoint blockade therapeutic research in oral cancer

WC Chiu, DL Ou, CT Tan - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The most prevalent oral cancer globally is oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The
invasion of adjacent bones and the metastasis to regional lymph nodes often lead to poor …

MSCs can be a double-edged sword in tumorigenesis

L Zhang, J Xiang, F Zhang, L Liu, C Hu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been used to treat various diseases including
Alzheimer's disease and cancer. In particular, the immunomodulatory function of MSCs …

Identity matters: cancer stem cells and tumour plasticity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

A Salem, T Salo - Expert reviews in molecular medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) represents frequent yet aggressive
tumours that encompass complex ecosystems of stromal and neoplastic components …