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Mouse Models of Cancer

Methods and Protocols

  • Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
  • Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
  • Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1267)

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Table of contents (22 protocols)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Modeling Cancer Using Genetically Engineered Mice

      • Patricia Stiedl, Beatrice Grabner, Katalin Zboray, Edith Bogner, Emilio Casanova
      Pages 3-18
  3. Individual Cancers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Mouse Models of Breast Cancer

      • Kazuhito Sakamoto, Jeffrey W. Schmidt, Kay-Uwe Wagner
      Pages 47-71
    3. Genetically Engineered Mouse Models to Study Prostate Cancer

      • Elspeth A. Brzezinska, Colin Nixon, Rachana Patel, Hing Y. Leung
      Pages 73-91
    4. Practical Use of Advanced Mouse Models for Lung Cancer

      • Roghaiyeh Safari, Ralph Meuwissen
      Pages 93-124
    5. Induction of Colorectal Cancer in Mice and Histomorphometric Evaluation of Tumors

      • Ilija Crncec, Paulina Pathria, Jasmin Svinka, Robert Eferl
      Pages 145-164
    6. Mouse Models of Liver Cancer

      • Jorge Matias Caviglia, Robert F. Schwabe
      Pages 165-183
    7. Current Methods in Mouse Models of Pancreatic Cancer

      • Pawel K. Mazur, Alexander Herner, Florian Neff, Jens T. Siveke
      Pages 185-215
    8. Mouse Models of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer

      • Nicole Amberg, Martin Holcmann, Elisabeth Glitzner, Philipp Novoszel, Gabriel Stulnig, Maria Sibilia
      Pages 217-250
    9. Clinicopathological Characterization of Mouse Models of Melanoma

      • Blake Ferguson, H. Peter Soyer, Graeme J. Walker
      Pages 251-261
    10. Modeling BCR/ABL-Driven Malignancies in the Mouse

      • Christine Schneckenleithner, Andrea Hoelbl-Kovacic, Veronika Sexl
      Pages 263-282
    11. Methods to Generate Genetically Engineered Mouse Models of Soft Tissue Sarcoma

      • Rebecca D. Dodd, Leonor Añó, Jordan M. Blum, Zhizhong Li, David Van Mater, David G. Kirsch
      Pages 283-295
    12. Characterization of Mouse Model-Derived Osteosarcoma (OS) Cells In Vitro and In Vivo

      • Özge Uluçkan, Latifa Bakiri, Erwin F. Wagner
      Pages 297-305
  4. Specific Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319
    2. Tumor Imaging Technologies in Mouse Models

      • Michael Bouvet, Robert M. Hoffman
      Pages 321-348

About this book

This volume is essential for geneticists, molecular biologists, biochemists, and medical doctors interested in the use of mouse models in cancer research. Recent genome studies, together with refined genetic engineering techniques, have greatly increased the value of using mice for research on cancer and other human disorders. The chapters of this book will support scientists in choosing the most suitable mouse models for their research questions. The book provides detailed methodological information for genetic or chemical induction of different types of cancer, histomorphometric cancer analysis, and in vivo imaging, as well as protocols to investigate oncogene addiction, immune surveillance, and hallmarks of cancer such as angiogenesis or metastasis. Four review-like articles provide background information on mouse technologies and histopathologic differences between mouse and human cancers. The mouse models described in individual chapters will fuel the understanding of cancer initiation, immune system roles, tumor angiogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and the relevance of molecular diversity observed among human cancers.  Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Cutting-edge and resourceful, Mouse Models of Cancers: Methods and Protocols, is a valuable laboratory resource for all researchers, from the graduate level upwards, who study cancer and new possibilities for its treatment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical University Vienna (MUV) Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria

    Robert Eferl

  • Research (LBI-CR), Medical University Vienna (MUV), Center of Physiology and Pharmacology & Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer, Vienna, Austria

    Emilio Casanova

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mouse Models of Cancer

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols

  • Editors: Robert Eferl, Emilio Casanova

  • Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2297-0

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Protocols

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2296-3Published: 31 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4844-4Published: 05 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2297-0Published: 30 January 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1064-3745

  • Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 463

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology, Animal Models

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