Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Single-cell analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies tumor signatures that predict chemotherapy susceptibility using patient-specific tumor spheroids

  • Hanbing Song,
  • Simon Bucher,
  • Katherine Rosenberg,
  • Margaret Tsui,
  • Deviana Burhan,
  • Daniel Hoffman,
  • Soo-Jin Cho,
  • Arun Rangaswami,
  • Marcus Breese,
  • Stanley Leung,
  • María V. Pons Ventura,
  • E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero,
  • Franklin W. Huang,
  • Amar Nijagal,
  • Bruce Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32473-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The mechanisms of tumor heterogeneity in pediatric hepatoblastoma remain poorly characterized. Here, the authors perform single cell RNA sequencing and identify 5 signatures with distinct responses to chemotherapy using patient-derived hepatoblastoma spheroid cultures.