Application of animal models in cancer research: recent progress and future prospects

Z Li, W Zheng, H Wang, Y Cheng, Y Fang… - Cancer management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Animal models refers to the animal experimental objects and related materials that can
simulate human body established in medical research. As the second-largest disease in …

Dairy-based probiotic-fermented functional foods: An update on their health-promoting properties

H Kaur, G Kaur, SA Ali - Fermentation, 2022 - mdpi.com
Numerous studies have shown a link between the consumption of fermented dairy foods
and improved health outcomes. Since the early 2000s, especially probiotic-based fermented …

Immunotherapy of glioblastoma: current strategies and challenges in tumor model development

B Majc, M Novak, N Kopitar-Jerala, A Jewett, B Breznik - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma is the most common brain malignant tumor in the adult population, and
immunotherapy is playing an increasingly central role in the treatment of many cancers …

Natural killer cells: diverse functions in tumor immunity and defects in pre-neoplastic and neoplastic stages of tumorigenesis

A Jewett, J Kos, K Kaur, T Safaei, C Sutanto… - Molecular Therapy …, 2020 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are the key immune effectors with the ability to mediate selection and
differentiation of a number of different cancer stem cells/undifferentiated tumors via lysis, and …

Progress in building clinically relevant patient‐derived tumor xenograft models for cancer research

W Wang, Y Li, K Lin, X Wang, Y Tu… - Animal Models and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patient‐derived tumor xenograft (PDX) models, a method involving the surgical extraction of
tumor tissues from cancer patients and subsequent transplantation into immunodeficient …

Infiltrating natural killer cells bind, lyse and increase chemotherapy efficacy in glioblastoma stem-like tumorospheres

B Breznik, MW Ko, C Tse, PC Chen, E Senjor… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastomas remain the most lethal primary brain tumors. Natural killer (NK) cell-based
therapy is a promising immunotherapeutic strategy in the treatment of glioblastomas, since …

Gut dysbiosis in pancreatic diseases: A causative factor and a novel therapeutic target

T Zhang, G Gao, HA Sakandar, LY Kwok, Z Sun - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic-related disorders such as pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, and type 1 diabetes
mellitus (T1DM) impose a substantial challenge to human health and wellbeing. Even …

Characterizing hepatocellular carcinoma stem markers and their corresponding susceptibility to NK-cell based immunotherapy

J Chiang, PC Chen, J Pham, CQ Nguyen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer and
is the fourth-leading cause of all cancer-related deaths around the world. Liver …

ADCC against MICA/B is mediated against differentiated oral and pancreatic and not stem-like/poorly differentiated tumors by the NK cells; loss in cancer patients due …

K Kaur, T Safaie, MW Ko, Y Wang, A Jewett - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Natural Killer cells are known to eliminate tumors directly or via antibody
dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The complete modes and mechanisms of such killings are …

Osteoclast-expanded super-charged NK-cells preferentially select and expand CD8+ T cells

K Kaur, MW Ko, N Ohanian, J Cook, A Jewett - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Osteoclasts (OCs) and much less dendritic cells (DCs) induce significant expansion and
functional activation of NK cells, and furthermore, the OC-expanded NK cells preferentially …