In a second study, described online Oct. 14 in Modern Pathology, the Johns Hopkins investigators sought a genetic source that could accurately identify subsets of low - grade
pediatric gliomas, the most frequent tumors of the central nervous system in children.
In 2015, her lab published a paper in Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and
pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neurons.
Not exact matches
Frustrated with the lack of investment in research and drug development devoted to
pediatric brain tumor
gliomas, the Kamens decided to take action and launch their foundation.
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly
pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma (DIPG), may develop.
The tumors studied fell into the broad category of high - grade
gliomas: diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma, which strikes school - aged children;
pediatric cortical glioblastoma, which affects primarily teens and young adults; anaplastic oligodendroglioma, which affects young adults; and glioblastoma multiforme, which affects older adults.
Researchers investigating
pediatric low - grade
gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences in how mutated genes combine with other genes to drive this childhood cancer.
«This is exciting because it's the first animal model of
pediatric high - grade
gliomas, or malignant brain tumors,» says Maria Castro, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and a professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Cell and Developmental Biology at U-M.
Somatic histone H3 alterations in
pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine
gliomas and non-brainstem glioblastomas.
Also this week, members of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Washington University
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) described the whole - genome sequencing
pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma (DIPG), 7 cases with tumor and matched germline DNA.
Screening of several other
pediatric brain tumors revealed that the histone H3 mutations seem exclusive to
pediatric high - grade
gliomas.
Research from the
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in
pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade
gliomas, including tumors like diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma pictured in this MRI.
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in
pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade
gliomas (HGGs), which most often occur in the youngest patients.
U-M's internationally renowned Translational Neuro - Oncology Laboratory generates novel primary cell cultures from
pediatric and adult
glioma tissue samples to study mechanisms of
glioma growth and targeted treatment response.