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ArticleSLAS technology2017

Drug Discovery Testing Compounds in Patient Samples by Automated Flow Cytometry.

Pilar Hernández, Julián Gorrochategui, Daniel Primo, Alicia Robles, José Luis Rojas, Ana Belén Espinosa, Cristina Gómez, Joaquín Martínez-López, Teresa A Bennett, Joan Ballesteros

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Article in SLAS technology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pilar Hernández1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Julián Gorrochategui1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Daniel Primo1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Alicia Robles1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
José Luis Rojas1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Ana Belén Espinosa1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Cristina Gómez1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Joaquín Martínez-López1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Teresa A Bennett1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Joan Ballesteros1 Vivia Biotech, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional ex vivo assays that predict a patient's clinical response to anticancer drugs for guiding cancer treatment have long been a goal, but few have yet proved to be reliable. To address this, we have developed an automated flow cytometry platform for drug screening that evaluates multiple endpoints with a robust data analysis system that can capture the complex mechanisms of action across different compounds. This system, called PharmaFlow, is used to test peripheral blood or bone marrow samples from patients diagnosed with hematological malignancies. Functional assays that use the whole sample, retaining all the microenvironmental components contained in the sample, offer an approach to ex vivo testing that may give results that are clinically relevant. This new approach can help to predict the patients' response to existing treatments or to drugs under development, for hematological malignancies or other tumors. In addition, relevant biomarkers can be identified that determine the patient's sensitivity, resistance, or toxicity to a given treatment. We propose that this approach, which better recapitulates the human microenvironment, constitutes a more predictive assay for personalized medicine and preclinical drug discovery.

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Antineoplastic AgentsAutomation, LaboratoryDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFlow CytometryHematologic NeoplasmsHumansPrecision MedicineAntineoplastic Agentsdrug discoveryex vivoflow cytometryprecision medicinewhole patient sample

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PMID28340541
PMCPMC5464399
OpenAlexW2617715446

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