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.
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.
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).
VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in
human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.
Dr. Iavarone's paper is titled, «Transforming Fusions of FGFR and TACC Genes in
Human Glioblastoma.»
Therapeutic efficacy of aldoxorubicin in an intracranial xenograft mouse model of
human glioblastoma.
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.
Son et al., SSEA - 1 is an enrichment marker for tumor - initiating cells in
human glioblastoma.
Anticancer effects of niclosamide in
human glioblastoma.
Human glioblastoma cell line.
Comprehensive genomic characterization defines
human glioblastoma genes and core pathways Nature, 455 (7216), 1061 - 1068 DOI: 10.1038 / nature07385
Calorie restriction has been used effectively to treat malignant glioblastoma multiforme in mice, which shares many characteristics with
human glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive and invasive primary human brain cancer [3].
Not exact matches
In
human cells and in mice, the virus infected and killed the stem cells that become a
glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain cells alone.
Using
human - derived
glioblastoma cells in a mouse models, researchers found that the modified high - fat, low - carbohydrate diet increased life expectancy by 50 percent while also reducing tumor progression by a similar amount.
The investigators report that trapping virus - loaded stem cells in a gel and applying them to tumors significantly improved survival in mice with
glioblastoma multiforme, the most common brain tumor in
human adults and also the most difficult to treat.
Shah and his team loaded the herpes virus into
human MSCs and injected the cells into
glioblastoma tumors developed in mice.
Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called
glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing
human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in
humans has been questioned.
This new generation of viruses has been genetically «targeted and armed,» says Winald Gerritsen of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, who is involved in an early
human trial of an engineered adeno - associated virus that attacks
glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual
human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life
glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.
Shah next plans to rationally combine the toxin - secreting stem cells with a number of different therapeutic stem cells developed by his team to further enhance their positive results in mouse models of
glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in
human adults.
Into the cerebral cortex of mice with these light - sensitive proteins, the team implanted cancer cells from a
human pediatric cortical
glioblastoma.
It is a continuation of previous research, published in 2011, that focused on the effect of decitabine on
glioblastoma human cell cultures.
Glioblastoma, also known as grade IV glioma, is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in
humans.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have discovered a peripheral biomarker in
human blood serum that can be used to detect the presence and progress of
glioblastoma brain tumors before and after treatment.
Our group established that pediatric
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which is one of the deadliest cancers in
humans, are molecularly and genetically distinct from adult GBM.
These results could pave the way for the use of progesterone against
glioblastoma in a
human clinical trial, perhaps in combination with standard - of - care therapeutic agents such as temozolomide.
Research Interests: inflammation; atherosclerosis;
glioblastoma; innate immunity;
human monocyte / macrophages; lipoxygenase; chemotaxis; superoxide anion; signal transduction; gene expression
In another study, 11
human cancer cell lines (carcinomas and
glioblastomas) were exposed to ascorbic acid in which 55 % of the cell lines were more susceptible (EC50 ≤ 20 mmol / L) and 45 % were more resistant (EC50 > 20 mmol / L) to incubation.
Dogs and
humans share a particularly deadly form of brain cancer:
glioblastoma.
A new five - year canine cancer research project, led by Dr. Liz Pluhar, may improve survival rates in dogs and give researchers more insight into
glioblastoma to apply to
human trials.