Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM): An overview of current therapies and mechanisms of resistance

W Wu, JL Klockow, M Zhang, F Lafortune… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a WHO grade IV glioma and the most common malignant,
primary brain tumor with a 5-year survival of 7.2%. Its highly infiltrative nature, genetic …

PI3K inhibitors are finally coming of age

B Vanhaesebroeck, MWD Perry, JR Brown… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Overactive phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in cancer and immune dysregulation
has spurred extensive efforts to develop therapeutic PI3K inhibitors. Although progress has …

Diffuse glioma heterogeneity and its therapeutic implications

JG Nicholson, HA Fine - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Diffuse gliomas represent a heterogeneous group of universally lethal brain tumors
characterized by minimally effective genotype-targeted therapies. Recent advances have …

Epigenetic encoding, heritability and plasticity of glioma transcriptional cell states

R Chaligne, F Gaiti, D Silverbush, JS Schiffman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed extensive transcriptional cell state diversity in
cancer, often observed independently of genetic heterogeneity, raising the central question …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma-a comprehensive review

N Singh, A Miner, L Hennis, S Mittal - Cancer drug resistance, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and has an
exceedingly low median overall survival of only 15 months. Current standard-of-care for …

Cancer gene mutation frequencies for the US population

G Mendiratta, E Ke, M Aziz, D Liarakos, M Tong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations play a fundamental role in the development of cancer, and many create targetable
vulnerabilities. There are both public health and basic science benefits from the …

ROS1-dependent cancers—biology, diagnostics and therapeutics

A Drilon, C Jenkins, S Iyer, A Schoenfeld… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
The proto-oncogene ROS1 encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase with an unknown
physiological role in humans. Somatic chromosomal fusions involving ROS1 produce …

Macrophages and microglia: the cerberus of glioblastoma

A Buonfiglioli, D Hambardzumyan - Acta neuropathologica …, 2021 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and deadliest of the primary brain tumors,
characterized by malignant growth, invasion into the brain parenchyma, and resistance to …

HGF/c-MET pathway in cancer: from molecular characterization to clinical evidence

J Fu, X Su, Z Li, L Deng, X Liu, X Feng, J Peng - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
This review provides a comprehensive landscape of HGF/c-MET (hepatocyte growth factor
(HGF)/mesenchymal–epithelial transition factor (c-MET)) signaling pathway in cancers. First …

Cancer stem cells: significance in origin, pathogenesis and treatment of glioblastoma

K Biserova, A Jakovlevs, R Uljanovs, I Strumfa - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), known also as tumor-initiating cells, are quiescent, pluripotent,
self-renewing neoplastic cells that were first identified in hematologic tumors and soon after …