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ReviewJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2017

Functional Optical Imaging of Primary Human Tumor Organoids: Development of a Personalized Drug Screen.

Alex J Walsh, Rebecca S Cook, Melissa C Skala

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Review in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Coculture of tumor organoids with pathogenic microorganisms: a novel system to mimicFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  16. Progress in the application of organoids to breast cancer research.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alex J WalshDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Rebecca S CookDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Melissa C SkalaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and mcskala@wisc.edu.
Vanderbilt University · USMorgridge Institute for Research · US

Funding

Optical imaging of pancreas cancer organoids for drug development and personalized treatmentR01CA211082 · NCI · MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC. · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2017 to 2021
$3.5M
(PQ7) Quantitative in vivo optical imaging of tumor heterogeneityR01CA205101 · NCI · MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC. · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Cellular-level Optical Metabolic Imaging to Predict Drug Response in CancerR01CA185747 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2014 to 2019
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA185747NCI NIH HHS R01 CA205101NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211082
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary tumor organoids are a robust model of individual human cancers and present a unique platform for patient-specific drug testing. Optical imaging is uniquely suited to assess organoid function and behavior because of its subcellular resolution, penetration depth through the entire organoid, and functional endpoints. Specifically, optical metabolic imaging (OMI) is highly sensitive to drug response in organoids, and OMI in tumor organoids correlates with primary tumor drug response. Therefore, an OMI organoid drug screen could enable accurate testing of drug response for individualized cancer treatment. The objective of this perspective is to introduce OMI and tumor organoids to a general audience in order to foster the adoption of these techniques in diverse clinical and laboratory settings.

Indexed as

Drug Screening Assays, AntitumorHumansNeoplasmsOptical ImagingOrganoidsPrecision Medicine3D culturecancer drug screensfluorescence imagingmultiphoton microscopyopticalprimary human spheroids

Identifiers

PMID28588148
PMCPMC12079173
OpenAlexW2622153869

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Registered trials

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