Interrogating open issues in cancer precision medicine with patient-derived xenografts

AT Byrne, DG Alférez, F Amant, D Annibali… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have emerged as an important platform to elucidate new
treatments and biomarkers in oncology. PDX models are used to address clinically relevant …

Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models in basic and translational breast cancer research

LE Dobrolecki, SD Airhart, DG Alferez… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2016 - Springer
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of a growing spectrum of cancers are rapidly
supplanting long-established traditional cell lines as preferred models for conducting basic …

Transcriptional diversity and bioenergetic shift in human breast cancer metastasis revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

RT Davis, K Blake, D Ma, MBI Gabra… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Although metastasis remains the cause of most cancer-related mortality, mechanisms
governing seeding in distal tissues are poorly understood. Here, we establish a robust …

[HTML][HTML] PHLDA2 regulates EMT and autophagy in colorectal cancer via the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway

Z Ma, S Lou, Z Jiang - Aging (Albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
High levels of the imprinted gene pleckstrin homology like domain family A member 2
(PHLDA2) correlate with tumor progression in several malignancies. Here, we investigated …

Ex Vivo Tumor Culture Systems for Functional Drug Testing and Therapy Response Prediction

TG Meijer, KAT Naipal, A Jager, DC van Gent - Future science OA, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Optimal patient stratification is of utmost importance in the era of personalized medicine.
Prediction of individual treatment responses by functional ex vivo assays requires model …

Patient-derived xenografts as compatible models for precision oncology

SY Cho - Laboratory animal research, 2020 - Springer
Cancer is a very heterogeneous disease, displaying heterogeneity between patients (inter-
tumoral heterogeneity) and heterogeneity within a patient (intra-tumoral heterogeneity) …

Identification of potential crucial genes associated with the pathogenesis and prognosis of endometrial cancer

L Liu, J Lin, H He - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background and Objective Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecological malignancy
worldwide. Despite advances in the development of strategies for treating EC, prognosis of …

[HTML][HTML] The role of transketolase in human cancer progression and therapy

S Hao, Q Meng, H Sun, Y Li, Y Li, L Gu, B Liu… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transketolase (TKT) is an enzyme that is ubiquitously expressed in all living organisms and
has been identified as an important regulator of cancer. Recent studies have shown that the …

Identifying predictors of HPV‐related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma progression and survival through patient‐derived models

ND Facompre, P Rajagopalan, V Sahu… - … journal of cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic innovation for human papilloma virus‐related (HPV+) head and neck squamous
cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) is impaired by inadequate preclinical models and the absence of …

Heat shock protein family A member 8 serving as a co-activator of transcriptional factor ETV4 up-regulates PHLDA2 to promote the growth of liver cancer

S Wang, Y Wang, G Yang, H Zhang, H Yuan… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2023 - nature.com
Heat shock protein family A member 8 (HSPA8) participates in the folding or degradation of
misfolded proteins under stress and plays critical roles in cancer. In this study, we …