Future directions in the treatment of osteosarcoma

A Smrke, PM Anderson, A Gulia, S Gennatas… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone sarcoma and is often diagnosed in the 2nd–
3rd decades of life. Response to the aggressive and highly toxic neoadjuvant methotrexate …

Spontaneous and induced animal models for cancer research

A Onaciu, R Munteanu, VC Munteanu, D Gulei… - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Considering the complexity of the current framework in oncology, the relevance of animal
models in biomedical research is critical in light of the capacity to produce valuable data with …

Genetic basis of ruminant headgear and rapid antler regeneration

Y Wang, C Zhang, N Wang, Z Li, R Heller, R Liu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ruminants are the only extant mammalian group possessing bony (osseous) headgear. We
obtained 221 transcriptomes from bovids and cervids and sequenced three genomes …

Targeting the CK1α/CBX4 axis for metastasis in osteosarcoma

X Wang, G Qin, X Liang, W Wang, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Osteosarcoma, an aggressive malignant cancer, has a high lung metastasis rate and lacks
therapeutic target. Here, we reported that chromobox homolog 4 (CBX4) was overexpressed …

Canine osteosarcoma genome sequencing identifies recurrent mutations in DMD and the histone methyltransferase gene SETD2

HL Gardner, K Sivaprakasam, N Briones… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Osteosarcoma (OS) is a rare, metastatic, human adolescent cancer that also occurs in pet
dogs. To define the genomic underpinnings of canine OS, we performed multi-platform …

Canine and murine models of osteosarcoma

J Beck, L Ren, S Huang, E Berger… - Veterinary …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common malignant bone tumor in children. Despite efforts to
develop and implement new therapies, patient outcomes have not measurably improved …

Methylation and PTEN activation in dental pulp mesenchymal stem cells promotes osteogenesis and reduces oncogenesis

WC Shen, YC Lai, LH Li, K Liao, HC Lai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Lineage commitment and tumorigenesis, traits distinguishing stem cells, have not been well
characterized and compared in mesenchymal stem cells derived from human dental pulp …

Understanding and modeling metastasis biology to improve therapeutic strategies for combating osteosarcoma progression

TM Fan, RD Roberts, MM Lizardo - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Osteosarcoma is a malignant primary tumor of bone, arising from transformed progenitor
cells with osteoblastic differentiation and osteoid production. While categorized as a rare …

Emerging trends in immunotherapy for pediatric sarcomas

KA Dyson, BD Stover, A Grippin… - Journal of hematology & …, 2019 - Springer
While promising, immunotherapy has yet to be fully unlocked for the preponderance of
cancers where conventional chemoradiation reigns. This remains particularly evident in …

SETD2 Is Recurrently Mutated in Whole-Exome Sequenced Canine Osteosarcoma

S Sakthikumar, I Elvers, J Kim, ML Arendt, R Thomas… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Osteosarcoma is a debilitating bone cancer that affects humans, especially children and
adolescents. A homologous form of osteosarcoma spontaneously occurs in dogs, and its …