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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2015

Zebrafish: a new companion for translational research in oncology.

Jorge Barriuso, Raghavendar Nagaraju, Adam Hurlstone

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Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Using Zebrafish Larvae as a Xenotransplantation Model to Study Ewing Sarcoma.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  3. Zebrafish as a Model for Translational Immuno-Oncology.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025
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  4. Small Fish, Big Answers: Zebrafish and the Molecular Drivers of Metastasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. Zebrafish as an Experimental Model for Human Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. Monitoring and modulation of the tumor microenvironment for enhanced cancer modeling.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jorge BarriusoFaculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. jorge.barriuso@manchester.ac.uk adam.hurlstone@manchester.ac.uk.
Raghavendar NagarajuFaculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Adam HurlstoneFaculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. jorge.barriuso@manchester.ac.uk adam.hurlstone@manchester.ac.uk.

Funding

European Research Council 282059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In an era of high-throughput "omic" technologies, the unprecedented amount of data that can be generated presents a significant opportunity but simultaneously an even greater challenge for oncologists trying to provide personalized treatment. Classically, preclinical testing of new targets and identification of active compounds against those targets have entailed the extensive use of established human cell lines, as well as genetically modified mouse tumor models. Patient-derived xenografts in zebrafish may in the near future provide a platform for selecting an appropriate personalized therapy and together with zebrafish transgenic tumor models represent an alternative vehicle for drug development. The zebrafish is readily genetically modified. The transparency of zebrafish embryos and the recent development of pigment-deficient zebrafish afford researchers the valuable capacity to observe directly cancer formation and progression in a live vertebrate host. The zebrafish is amenable to transplantation assays that test the serial passage of fluorescently labeled tumor cells as well as their capacity to disseminate and/or metastasize. Progress achieved to date in genetic engineering and xenotransplantation will establish the zebrafish as one of the most versatile animal models for cancer research. A model organism that can be used in transgenesis, transplantation assays, single-cell functional assays, and in vivo imaging studies make zebrafish a natural companion for mice in translational oncology research.

Indexed as

Medical OncologyTranslational Research, BiomedicalZebrafishAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDisease Models, AnimalDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorGenomicsHeterograftsHumansNeoplasmsNeovascularization, Pathologic

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PMID25573382
PMCPMC5034890

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