A Personalized Therapeutics Approach Using an In Silico Drosophila Patient Model Reveals Optimal Chemo- and Targeted Therapy Combinations for Colorectal …

MN Gondal, RN Butt, OS Shah, MU Sultan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In silico models of biomolecular regulation in cancer, annotated with patient-specific gene
expression data, can aid in the development of novel personalized cancer therapeutic …

Sensitive High-Throughput Assays for Tumour Burden Reveal the Response of a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Colorectal Cancer to Standard Chemotherapies

J Adams, A Casali, K Campbell - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drosophila melanogaster (Drosophila) models of cancer are emerging as powerful tools to
investigate the basic mechanisms underlying tumour progression and identify novel …

Platform combining statistical modeling and patient-derived organoids to facilitate personalized treatment of colorectal carcinoma

GM Ramzy, M Norkin, T Koessler, L Voirol… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Background We propose a new approach for designing personalized treatment for
colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, by combining ex vivo organoid efficacy testing with …

Optimized low‐dose combinatorial drug treatment boosts selectivity and efficacy of colorectal carcinoma treatment

M Zoetemelk, GM Ramzy, M Rausch… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The current standard of care for colorectal cancer (CRC) is a combination of
chemotherapeutics, often supplemented with targeted biological drugs. An urgent need …

Connecting cancer pathways to tumor engines: A stratification tool for colorectal cancer combining human in vitro tissue models with boolean in silico models

F Baur, SL Nietzer, M Kunz, F Saal, J Jeromin… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
To improve and focus preclinical testing, we combine tumor models based on a
decellularized tissue matrix with bioinformatics to stratify tumors according to stage-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Functional exploration of colorectal cancer genomes using Drosophila

E Bangi, C Murgia, AGS Teague, OJ Sansom… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The multigenic nature of human tumours presents a fundamental challenge for cancer drug
discovery. Here we use Drosophila to generate 32 multigenic models of colon cancer using …

A middle-out modeling strategy to extend a colon cancer logical model improves drug synergy predictions in epithelial-derived cancer cell lines

E Tsirvouli, V Touré, B Niederdorfer… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a heterogeneous and complex disease and one of the leading causes of death
worldwide. The high tumor heterogeneity between individuals affected by the same cancer …

Preclinical models as patients' avatars for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: past and future challenges

E Durinikova, K Buzo, S Arena - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a complex and heterogeneous disease, characterized by dismal
prognosis and low survival rate in the advanced (metastatic) stage. During the last decade …

Patient-derived organoid serves as a platform for personalized chemotherapy in advanced colorectal cancer patients

K Geevimaan, JY Guo, CN Shen, JK Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Addition of oxaliplatin to adjuvant 5-FU has significantly improved the disease-
free survival and served as the first line adjuvant chemotherapy in advanced colorectal …

Computational identification of key regulators in two different colorectal cancer cell lines

D Wlochowitz, M Haubrock, J Arackal… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Transcription factors (TFs) are gene regulatory proteins that are essential for an effective
regulation of the transcriptional machinery. Today, it is known that their expression plays an …