"Human glioblastoma" refers to a type of brain cancer that occurs in humans. It is a very aggressive and dangerous form of cancer that develops from cells in the brain called glial cells.
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The investigators then confirmed that these four factors and their corresponding regulatory elements — the DNA segments to which transcription factors bind — were active in from 2 to 7 percent of
human glioblastoma cells, cells that also expressed a known stem cell marker.
He had long despaired of oncology's dirty little open secret: that when scientists transplant bits
of human glioblastomas into mouse brains, the standard research approach, the result doesn't mimic what happens in people.
An initial library of 15 biodegradable particle formulations was tested for their ability to carry siRNAs
into human glioblastoma cells that were genetically engineered to make green fluorescent protein (GFP).
Figure 2: Abnormal accumulation of the FGFR - TACC fusion protein (red) in glioblastoma stem cells isolated from a primary
human glioblastoma with fused FGFR - TACC genes.
Comprehensive genomic characterization defines
human glioblastoma genes and core pathways Nature, 455 (7216), 1061 - 1068 DOI: 10.1038 / nature07385
Glauco Souza of Nano3D Biosciences in Houston, Texas, and his colleagues
incubated human glioblastoma cells from brain tumours with iron oxide and bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria and can bind to, but not harm, mammalian cells.
The team found that exposing samples of
human glioblastoma tumours grown in a dish to the Zika virus destroyed the cancer stem cells.
In a series of experiments, the researchers first identified a set of 19 transcription factors that were expressed at significantly greater levels in
cultured human glioblastoma stem cells capable of tumor propagation than in differentiated tumor cells.
VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in
human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.
Glioblastomas in lab dishes and mouse brains are fakes, little Potemkin villages that everyone thought were faithful replicas
of human glioblastomas but which, lacking tumor stem cells, were nothing of the kind.
These cancer stem cells were used to create preclinical models relevant to
human glioblastoma.
Anticancer effects of niclosamide in
human glioblastoma.