@inbook{eb1c096e931147408641c41ce656764b,
title = "Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Biopsies to Generate Preclinical Disease Models to Study Inflammation in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma",
abstract = "Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) are valuable models to study cancer biology, behavior, and response to therapies in vivo. Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive and treatment-resistant disease, and typical biopsies are often of low cellular yield and therefore present challenges for the creation of PDXs. This chapter will describe a method to establish PDX models from tissue biopsies obtained via endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration, a relatively noninvasive technique which compared to surgery is available to pancreatic cancer patients at all stages of disease. Furthermore, we also describe methods to incorporate “humanization” of PDXs via reconstitution with human immune cells, thus mimicking the immune cell-rich microenvironment of pancreatic tumors.",
keywords = "EUS-FNA, EUS-FNB, Humanisation, Inflammation, NOD-SCID mice, Pancreatic cancer, Patient-derived xenograft (PDX)",
author = "Joanne Lundy and Daniel Croagh",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-0716-3331-1_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781071633304",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press",
pages = "43--54",
editor = "Jenkins, {Brendan J.}",
booktitle = "Inflammation and Cancer",
address = "United States of America",
edition = "2nd",
}