Advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques in management of brain metastases

H Mehrabian, J Detsky, H Soliman, A Sahgal… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Brain metastases are the most common intracranial tumors and occur in 20–40% of all
cancer patients. Lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma are the most frequent primary …

Radiation-induced adaptive response: new potential for cancer treatment

CN Coleman, I Eke, AY Makinde, S Chopra… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Radiotherapy is highly effective due to its ability to physically focus the treatment to target the
tumor while sparing normal tissue and its ability to be combined with systemic therapy. This …

Miat and interacting protein Metadherin maintain a stem-like niche to promote medulloblastoma tumorigenesis and treatment resistance

KL Peng, HN Vasudevan, DT Lockney… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play essential roles in the development and progression
of many cancers. However, the contributions of lncRNAs to medulloblastoma (MB) remain …

[HTML][HTML] Radiotherapy-Induced Neurocognitive Impairment Is Driven by Heightened Apoptotic Priming in Early Life and Prevented by Blocking BAX

R Singh, S Yu, M Osman, Z Inde, C Fraser… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Although external beam radiotherapy (xRT) is commonly used to treat central nervous
system (CNS) tumors in patients of all ages, young children treated with xRT frequently …

A compartmentalized phosphoinositide signaling axis at cilia is regulated by INPP5E to maintain cilia and promote Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma

SE Conduit, V Ramaswamy, M Remke, DN Watkins… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling at primary cilia drives the proliferation and progression of
a subset of medulloblastomas, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumor. Severe …

A meta-learning approach to improving radiation response prediction in cancers

Y Zhang, L Qiu, Y Ren, Z Cheng, L Li, S Yao… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Predicting the efficacy of radiotherapy in individual patients has drawn widespread
attention, but the limited sample size remains a bottleneck for utilizing high-dimensional …

Chronic AMPK inactivation slows SHH medulloblastoma progression by inhibiting mTORC1 signaling and depleting tumor stem cells

DS Malawsky, T Dismuke, H Liu, E Castellino… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
We show that inactivating AMPK in a genetic medulloblastoma model depletes tumor stem
cells and slows progression. In medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric …

Cryptic developmental events determine medulloblastoma radiosensitivity and cellular heterogeneity without altering transcriptomic profile

DS Malawsky, SJ Weir, JK Ocasio, B Babcock… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
It is unclear why medulloblastoma patients receiving similar treatments experience different
outcomes. Transcriptomic profiling identified subgroups with different prognoses, but in each …

GSK-3 modulates SHH-driven proliferation in postnatal cerebellar neurogenesis and medulloblastoma

JK Ocasio, RDP Bates, CD Rapp… - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Cerebellar development requires regulated proliferation of cerebellar granule neuron
progenitors (CGNPs). Inadequate CGNP proliferation causes cerebellar hypoplasia …

PRC2 disruption in cerebellar progenitors produces cerebellar hypoplasia and aberrant myoid differentiation without blocking medulloblastoma growth

AH Cleveland, D Malawsky, M Churiwal… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract We show that Polycomb Repressive Complex-2 (PRC2) components EED and
EZH2 maintain neural identity in cerebellar granule neuron progenitors (CGNPs) and SHH …