Medulloblastomics revisited: biological and clinical insights from thousands of patients

V Hovestadt, O Ayrault, FJ Swartling… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumour primarily diagnosed during childhood, has
recently been the focus of intensive molecular profiling efforts, profoundly advancing our …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative splicing in the mammalian nervous system: recent insights into mechanisms and functional roles

B Raj, BJ Blencowe - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
High-throughput transcriptomic profiling approaches have revealed that alternative splicing
(AS) of precursor mRNAs, a fundamental process by which cells expand their transcriptomic …

The risk-associated long noncoding RNA NBAT-1 controls neuroblastoma progression by regulating cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation

GK Pandey, S Mitra, S Subhash, F Hertwig, M Kanduri… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is an embryonal tumor of the sympathetic nervous system and the most
common extracranial tumor of childhood. By sequencing transcriptomes of low-and high-risk …

The many faces of neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer progression

S Terry, H Beltran - Frontiers in oncology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In normal prostate, neuroendocrine (NE) cells are rare and interspersed among the
epithelium. These cells are believed to provide trophic signals to epithelial cell populations …

Chromatin crosstalk in development and disease: lessons from REST

L Ooi, IC Wood - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Protein complexes that contain chromatin-modifying enzymes have an important role in
regulating gene expression. Recent studies have shown that a single transcription factor, the …

REST maintains self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

SK Singh, MN Kagalwala, J Parker-Thornburg… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The neuronal repressor REST (RE1-silencing transcription factor; also called NRSF) is
expressed at high levels in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, but its role in these cells is …

SCFβ-TRCP controls oncogenic transformation and neural differentiation through REST degradation

TF Westbrook, G Hu, XL Ang, P Mulligan, NN Pavlova… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The RE1-silencing transcription factor (REST, also known as NRSF) is a master repressor of
neuronal gene expression and neuronal programmes in non-neuronal lineages,,. Recently …

MicroRNA profiling in human medulloblastoma

E Ferretti, E De Smaele, A Po… - … journal of cancer, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Medulloblastoma is an aggressive brain malignancy with high incidence in childhood.
Current treatment approaches have limited efficacy and severe side effects. Therefore, new …

Renewed proliferation in adult mouse cochlea and regeneration of hair cells

Y Shu, W Li, M Huang, YZ Quan, D Scheffer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The adult mammalian inner ear lacks the capacity to divide or regenerate. Damage to inner
ear generally leads to permanent hearing loss in humans. Here, we present that …

miR-124 is frequently down-regulated in medulloblastoma and is a negative regulator of SLC16A1

KKW Li, JC Pang, AK Ching, CK Wong, X Kong… - Human pathology, 2009 - Elsevier
Given that miR-124 is preferentially expressed in differentiating and mature neurons and
external granule cells of cerebellum are thought to be cells-of-origins of medulloblastomas …