Cancer spheroids and organoids as novel tools for research and therapy: state of the art and challenges to guide precision medicine

S El Harane, B Zidi, N El Harane, KH Krause, T Matthes… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spheroids and organoids are important novel players in medical and life science research.
They are gradually replacing two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures. Indeed, three-dimensional …

Alveolar progenitor cells and the origin of lung cancer

J Sainz de Aja, AFM Dost… - Journal of internal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer‐related deaths worldwide. This is mainly due to
late diagnosis and therefore advanced stage of the disease. Understanding the cell of origin …

Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants

W Hill, EL Lim, CE Weeden, C Lee, M Augustine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A complete understanding of how exposure to environmental substances promotes cancer
formation is lacking. More than 70 years ago, tumorigenesis was proposed to occur in a two …

Smarca4 Inactivation Promotes Lineage-Specific Transformation and Early Metastatic Features in the Lung

CP Concepcion, S Ma, LM LaFave, A Bhutkar, M Liu… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
SMARCA4/BRG1 encodes for one of two mutually exclusive ATPases present in mammalian
SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes and is frequently mutated in human lung …

Deciphering cell lineage specification of human lung adenocarcinoma with single-cell RNA sequencing

Z Wang, Z Li, K Zhou, C Wang, L Jiang, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) arise from precancerous lesions such as atypical
adenomatous hyperplasia, which progress into adenocarcinoma in situ and minimally …

HDAC3 is critical in tumor development and therapeutic resistance in Kras-mutant non–small cell lung cancer

LJ Eichner, SD Curtis, SN Brun, CK McGuire… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
HDAC3 is one of the main targets of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors in clinical
development as cancer therapies, yet the in vivo role of HDAC3 in solid tumors is unknown …

Single-cell RNA sequencing in cancer: Applications, advances, and emerging challenges

G Sun, Z Li, D Rong, H Zhang, X Shi, W Yang… - Molecular Therapy …, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer has become one of the greatest threats to human health, and new technologies are
urgently needed to further clarify the mechanisms of cancer so that better detection and …

Organoid cultures for cancer modeling

HHN Yan, AS Chan, FPL Lai, SY Leung - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Organoids derived from adult stem cells (ASCs) and pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are
important preclinical models for studying cancer and developing therapies. Here, we review …

The application of patient-derived organoid in the research of lung cancer

Y Li, X Gao, C Ni, B Zhao, X Cheng - Cellular Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Lung cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death
worldwide. However, mechanisms of its progression remained unclear and new treatments …

Comparative roadmaps of reprogramming and oncogenic transformation identify Bcl11b and Atoh8 as broad regulators of cellular plasticity

A Huyghe, G Furlan, J Schroeder, E Cascales… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Coordinated changes of cellular plasticity and identity are critical for pluripotent
reprogramming and oncogenic transformation. However, the sequences of events that …