Mechanistic insights and the clinical prospects of targeted therapies for glioblastoma: a comprehensive review

Y Shen, DKH Thng, ALA Wong, TB Toh - Experimental Hematology & …, 2024 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a fatal brain tumour that is traditionally diagnosed based on
histological features. Recent molecular profiling studies have reshaped the World Health …

Current and future therapeutic strategies for high-grade gliomas leveraging the interplay between epigenetic regulators and kinase signaling networks

LM Stitzlein, JT Adams, EN Stitzlein, RW Dudley… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Springer
Targeted therapies, including small molecule inhibitors directed against aberrant kinase
signaling and chromatin regulators, are emerging treatment options for high-grade gliomas …

The Epigenetic Evolution of Glioma Is Determined by the IDH1 Mutation Status and Treatment Regimen

TM Malta, TS Sabedot, NS Morosini, I Datta… - Cancer research, 2024 - AACR
Tumor adaptation or selection is thought to underlie therapy resistance in glioma. To
investigate longitudinal epigenetic evolution of gliomas in response to therapeutic pressure …

DNA hypomethylator phenotype reprograms glutamatergic network in receptor tyrosine kinase gene-mutated glioblastoma

M Harachi, K Masui, E Shimizu, K Murakami… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2024 - Springer
DNA methylation is crucial for chromatin structure and gene expression and its aberrancies,
including the global “hypomethylator phenotype”, are associated with cancer. Here we show …

IDHwt glioblastomas can be stratified by their transcriptional response to standard treatment, with implications for targeted therapy

G Tanner, R Barrow, S Ajaib, M Al-Jabri, N Ahmed… - Genome biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumors lacking IDH1 mutations (IDHwt) have the
worst prognosis of all brain neoplasms. Patients receive surgery and chemoradiotherapy but …

Comprehensive analysis reveals that LTBR is a immune-related biomarker for glioma

Q Tang, Y Yuan, L Li, Y Xu, W Ji, S Xiao, Y Han… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Glioma is a common malignant brain tumor with great heterogeneity and huge difference in
clinical outcomes. Although lymphotoxin (LT) beta receptor (LTBR) has been linked to …

Systemic and local immunosuppression in glioblastoma and its prognostic significance

AA Stepanenko, AO Sosnovtseva, MP Valikhov… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The effectiveness of tumor therapy, especially immunotherapy and oncolytic virotherapy,
critically depends on the activity of the host immune cells. However, various local and …

Liquid biopsy for glioma using cell-free DNA in cerebrospinal fluid

R Otsuji, Y Fujioka, N Hata, D Kuga, R Hatae… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioma is one of the most common primary central nervous system (CNS)
tumors, and its molecular diagnosis is crucial. However, surgical resection or biopsy is risky …

miRNA-194-3p represses NF-κB in gliomas to attenuate iPSC genes and proneural to mesenchymal transition

JR Jacob, R Singh, M Okamoto, A Chakravarti… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Severe tumor heterogeneity drives the aggressive and treatment refractory nature of
glioblastomas (GBMs). While limiting GBM heterogeneity offers promising therapeutic …

Genome‐wide DNA methylation analysis identifies potent CpG signature for temzolomide response in non‐G‐CIMP glioblastomas with unmethylated MGMT promoter: MGMT …

BB Liang, YH Wang, JJ Huang, S Lin… - CNS Neuroscience …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purposes To identify potent DNA methylation candidates that could predict response to
temozolomide (TMZ) in glioblastomas (GBMs) that do not have glioma‐CpGs island …