PUBLICATION
Modeling Cancer with Flies and Fish
- Authors
- Cagan, R.L., Zon, L.I., White, R.M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190508-11
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Developmental Cell 49: 317-324 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- White, Richard M., Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal*
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Humans
- Neoplasms/metabolism*
- Neoplasms/pathology*
- Organoids/metabolism
- Organoids/physiology
- Tumor Microenvironment/physiology
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 31063751 Full text @ Dev. Cell
Citation
Cagan, R.L., Zon, L.I., White, R.M. (2019) Modeling Cancer with Flies and Fish. Developmental Cell. 49:317-324.
Abstract
Cancer has joined heart disease as the leading source of mortality in the US. In an era of organoids, patient-derived xenografts, and organs on a chip, model organisms continue to thrive with a combination of powerful genetic tools, rapid pace of discovery, and affordability. Model organisms enable the analysis of both the tumor and its associated microenvironment, aspects that are particularly relevant to our understanding of metastasis and drug resistance. In this Perspective, we explore some of the strengths of fruit flies and zebrafish for addressing fundamental cancer questions and how these two organisms can contribute to identifying promising therapeutic candidates.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping