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A Robust Mammary Organoid System to Model Lactation and Involution-like Processes

Authors: Elsa Charifou, Jakub Sumbal, Zuzana Koledova, Han Li and Aurélie Chiche, date: 04/20/2021, view: 156, Q&A: 0

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The mammary gland is a highly dynamic tissue that changes throughout reproductive life, including growth during puberty and repetitive cycles of pregnancy and involution. Mammary gland tumors represent the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. Studying the regulatory mechanisms of mammary gland development is essential for understanding

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Preparation of an Orthotopic, Syngeneic Model of Lung Adenocarcinoma and the Testing of the Antitumor Efficacy of Poly(2-oxazoline) Formulation of Chemo-and Immunotherapeutic Agents

Authors: Natasha Vinod, Duhyeong Hwang, Salma H. Azam, Amanda E. D. Van Swearingen, Elizabeth Wayne, Sloane Christian Fussell, Marina Sokolsky-Papkov, Chad V. Pecot and Alexander V. Kabanov, date: 03/20/2021, view: 897, Q&A: 0

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Tumor xenograft models developed by transplanting human tissues or cells into immune-deficient mice are widely used to study human cancer response to drug candidates. However, immune-deficient mice are unfit for investigating the effect of immunotherapeutic agents on the host immune response to cancer (Morgan, 2012). Here, we describe the

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In vivo Tumor Growth and Spontaneous Metastasis Assays Using A549 Lung Cancer Cells

Authors: Lei Qi, Teresa Knifley, Dava W. Piecoro, Piotr Rychahou, Jianrong Wu, Kathleen L. O’Connor and Min Chen, date: 04/05/2020, view: 2526, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] Metastasis accounts for the majority of cancer related deaths. The genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models and cell line-based subcutaneous and orthotopic mouse xenografts have been developed to study the metastatic process. By using lung cancer cell line A549 as an example, we present a modified protocol to establish the cell line-based ...

In vivo Leukemogenesis Model Using Retrovirus Transduction

Authors: Hiroshi Okuda and Akihiko Yokoyama, date: 12/05/2017, view: 6161, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] Various genetic alterations such as chromosomal translocation cause leukemia. For examples, gene rearrangements of the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) gene generate MLL fusion genes, whose products are potent oncogenic drivers in acute leukemia. To better understand the mechanism of disease onset, several murine leukemia models ...

Xenograft Mouse Model of Human Uveal Melanoma

Authors: Yao Chen, Xiao Liu, Ling Gao and Yongqing Liu, date: 11/05/2017, view: 5510, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] Uveal melanoma (UM) is a malignant intraocular tumor in adults. Metastasis develops in almost half of the patients and over 90% of the metastases are in the liver. With the advances in molecular targeting therapy for melanoma, a proper metastasis animal model is of increasing importance for testing the accuracy and effectiveness of systemic ...

Glioma Induction by Intracerebral Retrovirus Injection

Authors: Ravinder K Verma , Fanghui Lu and Qing Richard Lu, date: 07/20/2017, view: 6789, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain cancer in adults and has a poor prognosis. It is characterized by a high degree of cellular infiltration that leads to tumor recurrence, atypical hyperplasia, necrosis, and angiogenesis. Despite aggressive treatment modalities, current therapies are ineffective for GBM. Mouse GBM models not only ...

A Novel Mouse Skin Graft Model of Vascular Tumors Driven by Akt1

Authors: Thuy L. Phung and Sriram Ayyaswamy, date: 07/05/2017, view: 7982, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] To investigate whether endothelial Akt1 activation is sufficient to induce vascular tumor formation in the skin, we have developed a skin graft model in which a skin fragment from transgenic donor mice with inducible and endothelial cell-specific overexpression of activated Akt1 (myrAkt1) is grafted into the skin of wild type recipient mice. The ...

Intracaecal Orthotopic Colorectal Cancer Xenograft Mouse Model

Authors: Hsin-Wei Liao and Mien-Chie Hung, date: 06/05/2017, view: 9665, Q&A: 1

[Abstract] The host microenvironment plays a prominent role in tumor growth, angiogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and response to therapy. Orthotopic tumor model mimics the natural environment of tumor development and provides an effective approach to investigate tumor pathophysiology and develop therapeutic strategies. This protocol describes the technique ...

Pituitary Isograft Transplantation in Mice

Authors: Chance Walker, Yan Hong, Frances Kittrell, Daniel Medina, David Edwards and Fariba Behbod, date: 06/05/2017, view: 5871, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] The mouse pituitary isograft is a technique developed to administer persistent hormone stimulation, thereby increasing cellular proliferation in the mammary tissue (Christov et al., 1993). The pituitary isograft procedure was first described in ‘Induction of Mammary Cancer in Mice without the Mammary Tumor Agent by Isografts of ...

High Fat Diet-induced Breast Cancer Model in Rat

Authors: Meng Ju Wu and Chun Ju Chang, date: 07/05/2016, view: 6203, Q&A: 0

[Abstract] Obesity has been linked to breast cancer progression but the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. Being overweight or obese for a woman at the time she is diagnosed with breast cancer is linked to a high risk of recurrence regardless of treatment factors. In rodents, high body weight is also associated with increased incidence of spontaneous and ...

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