Zebrafish disease models in drug discovery: from preclinical modelling to clinical trials

EE Patton, LI Zon, DM Langenau - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Numerous drug treatments that have recently entered the clinic or clinical trials have their
genesis in zebrafish. Zebrafish are well established for their contribution to developmental …

Towards precision oncology with patient-derived xenografts

ER Zanella, E Grassi, L Trusolino - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Under the selective pressure of therapy, tumours dynamically evolve multiple adaptive
mechanisms that make static interrogation of genomic alterations insufficient to guide …

[HTML][HTML] Longevity leap: mind the healthspan gap

A Garmany, S Yamada, A Terzic - NPJ Regenerative Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Life expectancy has increased by three decades since the mid-twentieth century. Parallel
healthspan expansion has however not followed, largely impeded by the pandemic of …

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the cytoskeleton in bioengineered systems

SE Leggett, AM Hruska, M Guo, IY Wong - Cell Communication and …, 2021 - Springer
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is intrinsically linked to alterations of the
intracellular cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. After EMT, cells acquire an elongated …

Effectiveness of zebrafish models in understanding human diseases—A review of models

M Adhish, I Manjubala - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding the detailed mechanism behind every human disease, disorder, defect, and
deficiency is a daunting task concerning the clinical diagnostic tools for patients. Hence, a …

Preclinical models for drug discovery for metastatic disease

L Wakefield, S Agarwal, K Tanner - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Despite many advances, metastatic disease remains essentially uncurable. Thus, there is an
urgent need to better understand mechanisms that promote metastasis, drive tumor …

Microinjection in biomedical applications: An effortless autonomous omnidirectional microinjection system

S Zhuang, D Lei, X Yu, M Tong, W Lin… - IEEE Industrial …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the advancements in micro-and nanomechatronics techniques, the capability to
inject foreign materials into target locations inside biosamples has become increasingly …

Benefits of zebrafish xenograft models in cancer research

X Chen, Y Li, T Yao, R Jia - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As a promising in vivo tool for cancer research, zebrafish have been widely applied in
various tumor studies. The zebrafish xenograft model is a low-cost, high-throughput tool for …

Platinum-Triggered Bond-Cleavage of Pentynoyl Amide and N-Propargyl Handles for Drug-Activation

BL Oliveira, BJ Stenton, VB Unnikrishnan… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to create ways to control drug activation at specific tissues while sparing healthy
tissues remains a major challenge. The administration of exogenous target-specific triggers …

Recent Advancement in Breast Cancer Research: Insights from Model Organisms—Mouse Models to Zebrafish

SS Singhal, R Garg, A Mohanty, P Garg, SK Ramisetty… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The current article provides an overview of the significance of using
various mouse and zebrafish models in cancer research. In addition, this review discusses …