Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY, USA.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2012 Jan 10;2:119. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00119. eCollection 2011.
A significant number of well-differentiated thyroid cancers progress or recur, becoming resistant to current therapeutic options. Mouse models recapitulating the genetic and histological features of advanced thyroid cancer have been an invaluable tool to dissect the mechanisms involved in the progression from indolent, well differentiated tumors to aggressive, poorly differentiated carcinomas, and to identify novel therapeutic targets. In this review, we focus on the lessons learned from models of epithelial cell-derived thyroid cancer showing progression from hyperplastic lesions to locally invasive and metastatic carcinomas.
大量分化良好的甲状腺癌会进展或复发,对当前的治疗选择产生耐药性。能够重现晚期甲状腺癌遗传和组织学特征的小鼠模型,是解析从惰性、分化良好的肿瘤向侵袭性、低分化癌进展过程中涉及的机制,并确定新的治疗靶点的宝贵工具。在这篇综述中,我们重点介绍了源自上皮细胞的甲状腺癌模型中所获得的经验教训,这些模型显示了从增生性病变向局部侵袭性和转移性癌的进展。