Pathological angiogenesis: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

AC Dudley, AW Griffioen - Angiogenesis, 2023 - Springer
In multicellular organisms, angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from pre-
existing ones, is an essential process for growth and development. Different mechanisms …

The blood–brain barrier and blood–tumour barrier in brain tumours and metastases

CD Arvanitis, GB Ferraro, RK Jain - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
For a blood-borne cancer therapeutic agent to be effective, it must cross the blood vessel
wall to reach cancer cells in adequate quantities, and it must overcome the resistance …

Challenges in glioblastoma research: focus on the tumor microenvironment

A Bikfalvi, CA da Costa, T Avril, JV Barnier, L Bauchet… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most deadly type of malignant brain tumor, despite extensive
molecular analyses of GBM cells. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has …

[HTML][HTML] WNT/β-catenin signaling in the development of liver cancers

S He, S Tang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
The WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway is a highly conserved and tightly controlled molecular
mechanism that regulates embryonic development, cellular proliferation and differentiation …

Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

K Aldape, KM Brindle, L Chesler, R Chopra… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, brain tumours remain among the deadliest of all forms of
cancer. The ability of these tumours to resist almost all conventional and novel treatments …

Silk microneedle patch capable of on‐demand multidrug delivery to the brain for glioblastoma treatment

Z Wang, Z Yang, J Jiang, Z Shi, Y Mao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor. Surgery
followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy remains the standard treatment strategy for …

Engineered Wnt ligands enable blood-brain barrier repair in neurological disorders

M Martin, S Vermeiren, N Bostaille, M Eubelen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the central nervous system (CNS) from harmful blood-
borne factors. Although BBB dysfunction is a hallmark of several neurological disorders …

Enhancing cancer immunotherapy using antiangiogenics: opportunities and challenges

D Fukumura, J Kloepper, Z Amoozgar… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has emerged as a major therapeutic modality in oncology. Currently,
however, the majority of patients with cancer do not derive benefit from these treatments …

Shaping the brain vasculature in development and disease in the single-cell era

T Wälchli, J Bisschop, P Carmeliet, G Zadeh… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The CNS critically relies on the formation and proper function of its vasculature during
development, adult homeostasis and disease. Angiogenesis—the formation of new blood …

Three-dimensional bioprinted glioblastoma microenvironments model cellular dependencies and immune interactions

M Tang, Q Xie, RC Gimple, Z Zhong, T Tam, J Tian… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Brain tumors are dynamic complex ecosystems with multiple cell types. To model the brain
tumor microenvironment in a reproducible and scalable system, we developed a rapid three …