An oncofetal and developmental perspective on testicular germ cell cancer

MA Rijlaarsdam, LHJ Looijenga - Seminars in cancer biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Germ cell tumors (GCTs) represent a diverse group of tumors presumably originating from
(early fetal) developing germ cells. Most frequent are the testicular germ cell cancers …

Molecular biology of testicular germ cell tumors

R Gonzalez-Exposito, M Merino, C Aguayo - Clinical and Translational …, 2016 - Springer
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) are the most common solid tumors in young adult men.
They constitute a unique pathology because of their embryonic and germ origin and their …

NR5A2 gene affects the overall survival of LUAD patients by regulating the activity of CSCs through SNP pathway by OCLR algorithm and immune score

L Wu, X Chen, Q Zeng, Z Lai, Z Fan, X Ruan, X Li… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract Objective Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)
tumor stem cells were screened, and the biological characteristics of NR5A2 gene were …

STELLA facilitates differentiation of germ cell and endodermal lineages of human embryonic stem cells

P Wongtrakoongate, M Jones, PJ Gokhale… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Stella is a developmentally regulated gene highly expressed in mouse embryonic stem (ES)
cells and in primordial germ cells (PGCs). In human, the gene encoding the STELLA …

Identification of novel fusion genes in testicular germ cell tumors

AM Hoff, S Alagaratnam, S Zhao, J Bruun, PW Andrews… - Cancer Research, 2016 - AACR
Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are the most frequently diagnosed solid tumors in young
men ages 15 to 44 years. Embryonal carcinomas (EC) comprise a subset of TGCTs that …

Alternative splicing events and splicing factors are prognostic in adrenocortical carcinoma

J Lv, Y He, L Li, Z Wang - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alternative splicing is involved in the pathogenesis of human diseases, including cancer.
Here, we investigated the potential application of alternative splicing events (ASEs) and …

Aza-deoxycytidine induces apoptosis or differentiation via DNMT3B and targets embryonal carcinoma cells but not their differentiated derivatives

P Wongtrakoongate, J Li, PW Andrews - British journal of cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Background: Teratocarcinoma is a malignant male germ cell tumour, which contains stem
cells and differentiated cancer tissues. DNMT3B has been shown to be highly expressed in …

An integrated analysis of the SOX2 microRNA response program in human pluripotent and nullipotent stem cell lines

SF Vencken, P Sethupathy, G Blackshields, C Spillane… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background SOX2 is a core component of the transcriptional network responsible for
maintaining embryonal carcinoma cells (ECCs) in a pluripotent, undifferentiated state of self …

[HTML][HTML] DNA microarray reveals ZNF195 and SBF1 are potential biomarkers for gemcitabine sensitivity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines

MH Zhu, SL Ji, CY Zhang, L Cui, L Xiong… - International journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gemcitabine is a potential chemotherapy drug for treatment of head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC), however, the poor or partial response of HNSCC patients to …

Frequent copy number gains of SLC2A3 and ETV1 in testicular embryonal carcinomas

AM Hoff, SM Kraggerud, S Alagaratnam… - Endocrine-Related …, 2020 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) appear as different histological subtypes, or mixtures
of these. They show similar, multiple DNA copy number changes, where gain of 12p is …