Cell motility in cancer invasion and metastasis: insights from simple model organisms

CH Stuelten, CA Parent, DJ Montell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Metastasis remains the greatest challenge in the clinical management of cancer. Cell motility
is a fundamental and ancient cellular behaviour that contributes to metastasis and is …

Zebrafish patient avatars in cancer biology and precision cancer therapy

M Fazio, J Ablain, Y Chuan, DM Langenau… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In precision oncology, two major strategies are being pursued for predicting clinically
relevant tumour behaviours, such as treatment response and emergence of drug resistance …

Single-cell functional and chemosensitive profiling of combinatorial colorectal therapy in zebrafish xenografts

R Fior, V Póvoa, RV Mendes… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Cancer is as unique as the person fighting it. With the exception of a few biomarker-driven
therapies, patients go through rounds of trial-and-error approaches to find the best …

Visualizing engrafted human cancer and therapy responses in immunodeficient zebrafish

C Yan, DC Brunson, Q Tang, D Do, NA Iftimia… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Xenograft cell transplantation into immunodeficient mice has become the gold standard for
assessing pre-clinical efficacy of cancer drugs, yet direct visualization of single-cell …

Zebrafish models of cancer—new insights on modeling human cancer in a non-mammalian vertebrate

M Hason, P Bartůněk - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a valuable non-mammalian vertebrate model widely used to study
development and disease, including more recently cancer. The evolutionary conservation of …

Zebrafish: speeding up the cancer drug discovery process

P Letrado, I de Miguel, I Lamberto, R Díez-Martínez… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an ideal in vivo model to study a wide variety of human cancer
types. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of zebrafish in the cancer drug …

Single-cell RNA-sequencing uncovers transcriptional states and fate decisions in haematopoiesis

EI Athanasiadis, JG Botthof, H Andres, L Ferreira… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The success of marker-based approaches for dissecting haematopoiesis in mouse and
human is reliant on the presence of well-defined cell surface markers specific for diverse …

Zebrafish as a mainstream model for in vivo systems pharmacology and toxicology

CA MacRae, RT Peterson - Annual Review of Pharmacology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Pharmacology and toxicology are part of a much broader effort to understand the
relationship between chemistry and biology. While biomedicine has necessarily focused on …

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 …

Management and potentialities of primary cancer cultures in preclinical and translational studies

G Miserocchi, L Mercatali, C Liverani, A De Vita… - Journal of translational …, 2017 - Springer
The use of patient-derived primary cell cultures in cancer preclinical assays has increased in
recent years. The management of resected tumor tissue remains complex and a number of …