Applications of organoids for cancer biology and precision medicine

YH Lo, K Karlsson, CJ Kuo - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Organoid technologies enable the creation of in vitro physiologic systems that model tissues
of origin more accurately than classical culture approaches. Seminal characteristics of these …

Distinctive properties of metastasis-initiating cells

T Celià-Terrassa, Y Kang - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Primary tumors are known to constantly shed a large number of cancer cells into systemic
dissemination, yet only a tiny fraction of these cells is capable of forming overt metastases …

Organoid models of human and mouse ductal pancreatic cancer

SF Boj, CI Hwang, LA Baker, IIC Chio, DD Engle… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies due to its late diagnosis and limited
response to treatment. Tractable methods to identify and interrogate pathways involved in …

Detection of early pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with thrombospondin-2 and CA19-9 blood markers

J Kim, WR Bamlet, AL Oberg, KG Chaffee… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Markers are needed to facilitate early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(PDAC), which is often diagnosed too late for effective therapy. Starting with a PDAC cell …

Oncogenic transformation of diverse gastrointestinal tissues in primary organoid culture

X Li, L Nadauld, A Ootani, DC Corney, RK Pai… - Nature medicine, 2014 - nature.com
The application of primary organoid cultures containing epithelial and mesenchymal
elements to cancer modeling holds promise for combining the accurate multilineage …

Exploring the promising potential of induced pluripotent stem cells in cancer research and therapy

M Chehelgerdi, F Behdarvand Dehkordi… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
The advent of iPSCs has brought about a significant transformation in stem cell research,
opening up promising avenues for advancing cancer treatment. The formation of cancer is a …

[HTML][HTML] Translating complexity and heterogeneity of pancreatic tumor: 3D in vitro to in vivo models

MA Heinrich, AMRH Mostafa, JP Morton… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely aggressive type of cancer with
an overall survival rate of less than 7-8%, emphasizing the need for novel effective …

Investigating human disease using stem cell models

JL Sterneckert, P Reinhardt, HR Schöler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Tractable and accurate disease models are essential for understanding disease
pathogenesis and for developing new therapeutics. As stem cells are capable of self …

Modeling pancreatic cancer with organoids

LA Baker, H Tiriac, H Clevers, DA Tuveson - Trends in cancer, 2016 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a highly lethal malignancy for which new
treatment and diagnostic approaches are urgently needed. For such breakthroughs to be …

Dissecting OCT4 defines the role of nucleosome binding in pluripotency

GA Roberts, B Ozkan, I Gachulincová, MR O'Dwyer… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Pioneer transcription factors such as OCT4 can target silent genes embedded in
nucleosome-dense regions. How nucleosome interaction enables transcription factors to …