Primary Tumor Site Specificity is Preserved in Patient-Derived Tumor Xenograft Models

Patient-derived tumor xenograft (PDX) mouse models are widely used for drug screening. The underlying assumption is that PDX tissue is very similar with the original patient tissue, and it has the same response to the drug treatment. To investigate whether the primary tumor site information is well...

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Main Authors: Lei Chen, Xiaoyong Pan, Yu-Hang Zhang, Xiaohua Hu, KaiYan Feng, Tao Huang, Yu-Dong Cai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.00738/full