The challenging melanoma landscape: From early drug discovery to clinical approval

M Matias, JO Pinho, MJ Penetra, G Campos, CP Reis… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is recognized as the most dangerous type of skin cancer, with high mortality and
resistance to currently used treatments. To overcome the limitations of the available …

Liquid biopsy and its role in an advanced clinical trial for lung cancer

DJ Johann Jr, M Steliga, IJ Shin… - Experimental …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Liquid biopsy methodologies, for the purpose of plasma genotyping of cell-free DNA (cfDNA)
of solid tumors, are a new class of novel molecular assays. Such assays are rapidly entering …

PDX-MI: minimal information for patient-derived tumor xenograft models

TF Meehan, N Conte, T Goldstein, G Inghirami… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Patient-derived tumor xenograft (PDX) mouse models have emerged as an important
oncology research platform to study tumor evolution, mechanisms of drug response and …

“Blind men and an elephant”: The need for animals in research, drug safety studies, and understanding civilizational diseases

S Anbalagan - Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animal‐based research and drug safety studies are essential to understanding the
mysteries of nature and the long‐term survival of humans. Due to the rapid increase in the …

Establishing and maintaining an extensive library of patient-derived xenograft models

M Mattar, CR McCarthy, AR Kulick, B Qeriqi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models have recently emerged as a highly desirable
platform in oncology and are expected to substantially broaden the way in vivo studies are …

Genetically diverse mouse platform to xenograft cancer cells

JK Sargent, MA Warner, BE Low… - Disease Models & …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The lack of genetically diverse preclinical animal models in basic biology and efficacy
testing has been cited as a potential cause of failure in clinical trials. We developed and …

A biobank of colorectal cancer patient-derived xenografts

SM Abdirahman, M Christie, A Preaudet… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a challenging disease, with a high mortality rate and limited
effective treatment options, particularly for late-stage disease. Patient-derived xenografts …

Report of the use of patient‐derived xenograft models in the development of anticancer drugs in Japan

R Tsumura, Y Koga, A Hamada, T Kuwata… - Cancer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cell line‐derived xenograft (CDX) models created by implanting cancer cell lines into
immunodeficient mice have contributed largely to the development of cancer drug therapies …

Establishment and characterisation by expression microarray of patient-derived xenograft panel of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients

S Roche, F O'Neill, J Murphy, N Swan, J Meiller… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic cancer remains among the most lethal cancers worldwide, with poor early
detection rates and poor survival rates. Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models have …

Metabolic difference between patient-derived xenograft model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and corresponding primary tumor

S Wen, X Lin, W Luo, Y Pan, F Liao, Z Wang, B Zhan… - BMC cancer, 2024 - Springer
Background Patients-derived xenograft (PDX) model have been widely used for tumor
biological and pathological studies. However, the metabolic similarity of PDX tumor to the …