PMID- 30912023 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190717 LR - 20190717 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 1953 DP - 2019 TI - In Vivo Pharmacology Models for Cancer Target Research. PG - 183-211 LID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-9145-7_12 [doi] AB - Experimental animal tumor models have been broadly used to evaluate anticancer drugs in the preclinical setting. They have also been widely applied for drug target discovery and validation, which usually follows four experimental strategies: first, assess the roles of putative drug targets using in vivo tumorigenicity and tumor growth kinetics assays of transplanted tumors, engineered through gain-of-function (GOF) by overexpressing transgene or knock-in (KI) or loss-of-function by gene silencing using knockdown (KD) or knockout (KO) or mutation via mutagenesis procedures; second, similarly genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM), through either germline or somatic cell procedures, are used to test the roles of potential targets in spontaneous tumorigenicity assays; third, patient-derived xenografts (PDXs), which most closely resemble patient genetics and histopathology, are used in tumor inhibition assays for evaluating target-/pathway-specific inhibitors, including large and small molecules, thus assessing the drug target; and fourth, the targets can be assessed in population-based trials, mouse clinical trials (MCT), so that the validation can be generally meaningful as performed in human clinical trials. This chapter outlines the commonly used protocols in cancer drug target research: the first four sections describe four sets of different, specific pharmacology protocols used in the respective cancer modeling stages, with the last section summarizing the common protocols applicable to all four pharmacology modeling steps. FAU - Chen, Dawei AU - Chen D AD - Crown Bioscience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. FAU - An, Xiaoyu AU - An X AD - Crown Bioscience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. AD - State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China. FAU - Ouyang, Xuesong AU - Ouyang X AD - Crown Bioscience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. FAU - Cai, Jie AU - Cai J AD - Crown Bioscience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. FAU - Zhou, Demin AU - Zhou D AD - State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China. FAU - Li, Qi-Xiang AU - Li QX AD - Crown Bioscience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. henryli@crownbio.com. AD - State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China. henryli@crownbio.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antineoplastic Agents/*pharmacology/therapeutic use MH - Carcinogenesis/drug effects/genetics/pathology MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Drug Discovery/*methods MH - Gene Targeting/*methods MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Molecular Targeted Therapy/methods MH - Neoplasms/*drug therapy/genetics/pathology MH - Neoplasms, Experimental/drug therapy/genetics/pathology MH - Transgenes MH - Tumor Burden/drug effects MH - Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays/*methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - GEMM OT - Homograft OT - Knock-in OT - Knockdown OT - Knockout OT - PDX OT - Transgene OT - Tumor growth inhibition OT - Tumor growth kinetics OT - Tumorigenesis OT - Xenograft EDAT- 2019/03/27 06:00 MHDA- 2019/07/18 06:00 CRDT- 2019/03/27 06:00 PHST- 2019/03/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/03/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/07/18 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-9145-7_12 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1953:183-211. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9145-7_12.