«When we compared the gene signature activity of glioblastoma cells from around 60 patients we found that a large number of patients could be divided into subgroups that showed a correlation between gene activity,
tumor cell characteristics and cell of origin similar to the one we had seen in the mouse study.
Not exact matches
«If we can identify the point at which
tumor cells acquire the
characteristics of stem
cells, it will be possible to look for ways to interrupt the process and avoid progression of the disease.»
The
cells in such a brain
tumor can display very different
characteristics, such as varying
cell size or number of
cell nuclei.
On the fly, neurosurgeons can use the pen - sized instrument on the brain to view the
tumor cells with unique fluorescent
characteristics that outline the
tumor cells.
Brain
tumors arise in the glia, or supportive
cells, of the brain and now are classified by their histology —
characteristics visible via microscopy — and their
cell of origin, either astrocytes or oligodendrocytes.
«Some
cells that we call cancer stem
cells adopt deadly
characteristics where they can travel through the bloodstream to other tissue and form new
tumors.
Which pathway the
cell follows, and which genes are involved then largely determine the
characteristics of a pancreatic
tumor.
«We found that many more mice developed
tumors when given the
cells that we had engineered to have these stem
cell characteristics, and they had a much higher incidence of metastasis in the lungs,» Kilian said.
This led to development of newer technology, called single
cell sequencing (SCS), that has had a major impact in many areas of biology, including cancer research, neurobiology, microbiology, and immunology, and has greatly improved understanding of certain
tumor characteristics in cancer.
In this proof - of - principle study, the researchers showed, using DNA sequencing and karyotyping technologies, that the patient's unique
cell characteristics were maintained in both normal and
tumor CR laboratory
cells.
This indicated that the
cell of origin also has a direct influence on the
characteristics of human
tumors,» says Uhrbom.
«We discovered that several important
characteristics of the cancer
cells could be linked to the
tumor's
cell of origin.
Different
cell types exhibit
characteristic patterns of DNA methylation which enable scientists to draw conclusions about a
tumor's cellular origin.
Lloyd A. Greene and Arthur S. Tischler of the Harvard Medical School demonstrated in 1977 that
cells of the line designated PC12 (which are derived from a rat
tumor) respond to NGF by acquiring properties
characteristic of sympathetic neurons.
Gold nanotubes engineered to a specified length, modified surfaces, and to have other desirable
characteristics showed expected abilities to enter
tumor cells in laboratory studies, and to distribute to tissues within live mice as intended.
Depending on
characteristics such as how many
tumor cells, blood vessel
cells, and immune
cells are touching each other, the
tumor microenvironment can nearly triple the chance that a common type of breast cancer (estrogen - receptor positive / HER2 negative) that has reached the lymph nodes will also metastasize, Condeelis and colleagues showed in a 2014 study of 3,760 patients.
Bone marrow - derived mesenchymal stem
cells undergo JCV T - antigen mediated transformation and generate
tumors with neuroectodermal
characteristics.
«But we know that
tumors generally develop from a single
cell or a small number of
cells of a specific
cell type, which is one of the major determinants of the
characteristics of
tumor cells,» explains postdoctoral researcher and co-author Dinorah Friedmann - Morvinski.
More recently, scientists including Benjamin Spike, a co-first author on the current work and post-doctoral fellow in the Wahl lab, have discovered that
tumors often contain
cells with stem
cell characteristics revealed by their genetic signatures.
Known as
tumor - initiating
cells with stem like properties these
cells have many
characteristics in common with normal stem
cells in that they are self - replicating and capable of giving rise to populations of differentiated
cells.
«They displayed all the
characteristics of cancer stem
cells, and less than 100 and as few as 10
cells were enough to initiate a
tumor when injected into immunodeficient mice,» says Friedmann - Morvinski.
«
Cells expressing each of these characteristics were identified across all tumors, suggesting cells sensitive or resistant to chemotherapy are both presents in the same tumor,» confirmed Ste
Cells expressing each of these
characteristics were identified across all
tumors, suggesting
cells sensitive or resistant to chemotherapy are both presents in the same tumor,» confirmed Ste
cells sensitive or resistant to chemotherapy are both presents in the same
tumor,» confirmed Stewart.
Our underlying premise is that the
tumor microenvironment is immune suppressive because cancer
cells elicit responses
characteristic of wound healing and tissue regeneration.
CRI postdoctoral fellow Dr. Haihui Lu at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is studying some of the unique
characteristics that differentiate metastatic cancer
cells from primary
tumor cells, and specifically aims to understand how these unique
characteristics enable breast cancer
cells to escape elimination by the immune system.
Co-engrafting mice with human
tumors that retain the same
characteristics and human immune
cells, is a new platform to study the relationship between the human immune system and
tumors and develop immuno - oncology - based cancer therapies.
CSCs are a minority group of
cells (usually about 1 in 10000) within solid
tumors of hematological cancers, which possess similar
characteristics to normal stem
cells.
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