RNAi screen identifies essential regulators of human brain metastasis-initiating cells

M Singh, C Venugopal, T Tokar, KR Brown… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Brain metastases (BM) are the most common brain tumor in adults and are a leading cause
of cancer mortality. Metastatic lesions contain subclones derived from their primary lesion …

[PDF][PDF] Patient-derived models of brain metastases recapitulate human disseminated disease

CC Faria, R Cascão, C Custódia, E Paisana… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Dissemination of cancer cells from primary tumors to the brain occurs in many cancer
patients, increasing morbidity and death. There is an unmet medical need to develop …

Therapeutic targeting of the premetastatic stage in human lung-to-brain metastasis

M Singh, C Venugopal, T Tokar, N McFarlane… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Brain metastases (BM) result from the spread of primary tumors to the brain and are a
leading cause of cancer mortality in adults. Secondary tissue colonization remains the main …

A cancer stem cell model for studying brain metastases from primary lung cancer

SM Nolte, C Venugopal, N McFarlane… - Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Brain metastases are most common in adults with lung cancer, predicting
uniformly poor patient outcome, with a median survival of only months. Despite their …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering brain metastasis stem cell properties from colorectal cancer highlights specific stemness signature and shared molecular features

A Desette, PO Guichet, S Emambux… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Brain metastases (BMs) from colorectal cancer (CRC) are associated
with significant morbidity and mortality, with chemoresistance and short overall survival …

SPOCK1 is a novel transforming growth factor-β target gene that regulates lung cancer cell epithelial-mesenchymal transition

L Miao, Y Wang, H Xia, C Yao, H Cai, Y Song - … and biophysical research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death worldwide and the prognosis is
still poor with 5-year survival of approximately 15%. Metastasis is the leading cause of death …

[PDF][PDF] Cellular architecture of human brain metastases

H Gonzalez, W Mei, I Robles, C Hagerling, BM Allen… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Brain metastasis (BrM) is the most common form of brain cancer, characterized by
neurologic disability and an abysmal prognosis. Unfortunately, our understanding of the …

[HTML][HTML] Brain metastasis-initiating cells: survival of the fittest

M Singh, B Manoranjan, S Mahendram… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Brain metastases (BMs) are the most common brain tumor in adults, developing in about
10% of adult cancer patients. It is not the incidence of BM that is alarming, but the poor …

An HLA-G/SPAG9/STAT3 axis promotes brain metastases

BI Bassey-Archibong… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Brain metastases (BM) are the most common brain neoplasm in adults. Current BM
therapies still offer limited efficacy and reduced survival outcomes, emphasizing the need for …

Linkage between Twist1 and Bmi1: molecular mechanism of cancer metastasis/stemness and clinical implications

CY Wu, JJ Hung, KJ Wu - Clinical and Experimental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer metastasis is the major cause of cancer‐related death despite significant
improvements in multimodal cancer therapy. Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), a …