Articolo in rivista, 2024, ENG, 10.1007/978-1-0716-3714-2_5

Azoxymethane/Dextran Sodium Sulfate (AOM/DSS) Model of Colorectal Cancer

De Robertis, Mariangela; Signori, Emanuela

CNR - Istituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale; Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Recent progress in developing new vaccination strategies against cancer requires the production of complex and reliable animal models reflecting the complexity of the tumors with their microenvironment. Mice can be considered a good source due to low cost and ease of being genetically modified, inoculated with tumor cell lines or treated by chemicals to induce different cancers. Despite significant limitations in modeling human cancer complexity, preclinical trials conducted in mice can efficiently contribute to understand molecular mechanisms of cancer, to closely resemble and follow carcinogenesis steps impossible to study into humans, and to test new anticancer therapies. In this chapter, we generally describe the different mouse models developed for cancer vaccines' preclinical trials. A particular focus is dedicated to a chemically-induced colorectal cancer model in use in our laboratories.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton N.J., Online) 2773 , pp. 51–58

Keywords

AOM/DSS mouse model, Cancer vaccines, Chemically-induced tumors, Colorectal cancer, Mouse models

CNR authors

Signori Emanuela

CNR institutes

IFT – Istituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale