Current challenges and opportunities in treating glioblastoma

A Shergalis, A Bankhead, U Luesakul… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - ASPET
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor, has
a high mortality rate despite extensive efforts to develop new treatments. GBM exhibits both …

Stem cell fate in cancer growth, progression and therapy resistance

NK Lytle, AG Barber, T Reya - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Although we have come a long way in our understanding of the signals that drive cancer
growth, and how these signals can be targeted, effective control of this disease remains a …

Human glioblastoma arises from subventricular zone cells with low-level driver mutations

JH Lee, JE Lee, JY Kahng, SH Kim, JS Park, SJ Yoon… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating and incurable brain tumour, with a median overall
survival of fifteen months,. Identifying the cell of origin that harbours mutations that drive …

[HTML][HTML] Quiescent human glioblastoma cancer stem cells drive tumor initiation, expansion, and recurrence following chemotherapy

XP Xie, DR Laks, D Sun, M Ganbold, Z Wang… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
We test the hypothesis that glioblastoma harbors quiescent cancer stem cells that evade anti-
proliferative therapies. Functional characterization of spontaneous glioblastomas from …

The landscape of the mesenchymal signature in brain tumours

J Behnan, G Finocchiaro, G Hanna - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The complexity of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and lethal variant of gliomas,
is reflected by cellular and molecular heterogeneity at both the inter-and intra-tumoural …

Overcoming therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma: the way forward

S Osuka, EG Van Meir - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2017 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glioblastoma is the most common and lethal primary malignant brain tumor in adults.
Patients die from recurrent tumors that have become resistant to therapy. New strategies are …

Glioblastoma: pathology, molecular mechanisms and markers

K Aldape, G Zadeh, S Mansouri, G Reifenberger… - Acta …, 2015 - Springer
Recent advances in genomic technology have led to a better understanding of key
molecular alterations that underlie glioblastoma (GBM). The current WHO-based …

N6-Methyladenosine Modulates Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay in Human Glioblastoma

F Li, Y Yi, Y Miao, W Long, T Long, S Chen, W Cheng… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Abstract The N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification influences various mRNA metabolic
events and tumorigenesis, however, its functions in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay …

Notch as a tumour suppressor

CS Nowell, F Radtke - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The Notch signalling cascade is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that has a crucial role
in regulating development and homeostasis in various tissues. The cellular processes and …

A restricted cell population propagates glioblastoma growth after chemotherapy

J Chen, Y Li, TS Yu, RM McKay, DK Burns, SG Kernie… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common primary malignant brain tumour, with a median
survival of about one year. This poor prognosis is due to therapeutic resistance and tumour …