Patient-Derived Xenograft-Models in Cancer Research
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 51142
Special Issue Editor
Interests: patient-derived models: xenografts, ex vivo tissue slices and organoid cultures; metastasis: organ-on-chip systems, biomechanical aspects, clonality and the microenvironment; therapy resistance: castration-resistance, taxane-resistance, radioresistance; targeted imaging and radionuclide therapy: anti-PSMA and bombesin analogs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conventional (2D) cell culture models are great for relatively fast and easy research, but they do not reflect the heterogeneity of clinical cancer. Realizing that models are needed that more faithfully reflect tumor complexity, a revaluation of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models has taken place in the last two decades, instigating a revival of their use in fundamental and translational cancer research.
With the recognition that xenograft models are essential for investigating crucial aspects of tumor biology, such as tumor microenvironment, including vascularity, metastasis, and immune responses, we are, at the same time, confronted with the societal request to reduce animal research. Increasing efforts for more humanized models and with improving technology, we are now able to use optimized PDX models and highly dedicated multimodality imaging to reduce animal numbers needed for our research. Alternative PDX-based culture systems are being developed and optimized to fuel into in vitro primary (organoid) cultures and ex vivo precision-cut tissue slices.
With this Special Issue of Cancers, we wish to share cutting-edge developments and exchange expertise and know-how that are relevant across cancer types. We welcome authors to submit original research articles that will address research topics that require PDX models, highlighting their translational power:
- Tumor microenvironment
- Metastasis
- Tumor immunology
- Alternative PDX modeling: 3D organoids and tissue slice
Dr. Wytske van Weerden
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient-derived xenograft models
- tumor biology
- tumor microenvironment
- metastasis
- tumor immunology
- thin-cut tissue slices
- organoids