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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Samuel Pena-Llopis
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1050 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Sivanand Sharanya S Peña-Llopis Samuel S Zhao Hong H Kucejova Blanka B Spence Patrick P Pavia-Jimenez Andrea A Yamasaki Toshinari T McBride David J DJ Gillen Jessica J Wolff Nicholas C NC Morlock Lorraine L Lotan Yair Y Raj Ganesh V GV Sagalowsky Arthur A Margulis Vitaly V Cadeddu Jeffrey A JA Ross Mark T MT Bentley David R DR Kabbani Wareef W Xie Xian-Jin XJ Kapur Payal P Williams Noelle S NS Brugarolas James J
Science translational medicine 20120601 137
Most anticancer drugs entering clinical trials fail to achieve approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Drug development is hampered by the lack of preclinical models with therapeutic predictive value. Herein, we report the development and validation of a tumorgraft model of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and its application to the evaluation of an experimental drug. Tumor samples from 94 patients were implanted in the kidneys of mice without additives or disaggregation. Tumors from 35 o ...[more]