The feather model for chemo- and radiation therapy-induced tissue damage

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Abstract

Chemo- and radiation therapy are the main modalities for cancer treatment. A major limiting factor is their toxicity to normal tissue, thus reducing the dose and duration of the therapy. The hair follicle, gastrointestinal tract, and hematopoietic system are among the target organs that often show side effects in cancer therapy. Although these organs are highly mitotic in common, the molecular mechanism of the damage remains unclear. The feather follicle is a fast-growing mini-organ, which allows observation and manipulation on each follicle individually. As a model system, the feather follicle is advantageous because of the following reasons: (1) its complex structure is regulated by a set of evolutionarily conserved molecular pathways, thus facilitating the effort to dissect the specific signaling events involved; (2) its morphology allows the continuity of normal–perturbed–normal structure in a single feather, thus “recording” the damaging effect of chemo- and radiation therapy; (3) further histological and molecular analysis of the damage response can be performed on each plucked feather; thus, it is not necessary to sacrifice the experimental animal. Here, we describe methods of applying the feather model to study the molecular mechanism of chemo- and radiation therapy-induced tissue damage.

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Yue, Z., & Xu, B. (2017). The feather model for chemo- and radiation therapy-induced tissue damage. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1650, pp. 299–307). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7216-6_20

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