Animal Models of Pancreas Development, Developmental Disorders, and Disease.

The pancreas is a glandular organ responsible for diverse homeostatic functions, including hormone production from the endocrine islet cells to regulate blood sugar levels and enzyme secretion from the exocrine acinar cells to facilitate food digestion. These pancreatic functions are essential for life; therefore, preserving pancreatic function is of utmost importance. Pancreas dysfunction can arise either from developmental disorders or adult onset disease, both of which are caused by defects in shared molecular pathways.

In this chapter, we discuss what is known about the molecular mechanisms controlling pancreas development, how disruption of these mechanisms can lead to developmental defects and disease, and how essential pancreas functions can be modeled using human pluripotent stem cells.

At the core of understanding of these molecular processes are animal model studies that continue to be essential for elucidating the mechanisms underlying human pancreatic functions and diseases.

Disseminated Tumor Cells and Dormancy in Breast Cancer Progression.

Hematogenous dissemination of single cancer cells is a common phenomenon in patients with solid tumors. These cells may experience different fates: most will die during the process; some will grow into metastasis and some will persist in secondary homing sites for many years in a state referred to as dormancy. The mechanisms of this state are still not clear; single cancer cells can survive either by completely withdrawing from the cell cycle or by continuing to proliferate at a slow rate that is counterbalanced by cell death.

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Another hypothesis assumes that at least some of dormant tumor cells feature stem cell-like characteristics that may contribute to their extremely long half-lives and enhance chemotherapy resistance. Breast cancer is particularly known for prolonged periods of clinical freedom of disease (sometimes up to 20-30 years), followed by a distant relapse. In this chapter, we explore the relationship between the clinical phenomenon of tumor dormancy and the disseminated tumor cells and discuss the potential implications for treatment.

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