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BRAINLIFE NEWSLETTER
Volume 3, Number 32 - 4 August 2004

Volume 3
Archive


Etiology & Pathogenesis

Special Issue Stem Cells and Brain Tumors


What are Stem Cells?

R A Barker, M Jain, R J E Armstrong and M A Caldwell
Stem cells and neurological disease
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, May 2003;74:553-557.

Rossella Galli, Angela Gritti, Luca Bonfanti, Angelo Luigi Vescovi
Neural Stem Cells, An Overview
Circulation Research, April 4, 2003, Volume 92, Number 6, 598 - 608. 

Stem Cell Migration to Areas of Brain Injury

Johan Aarum, Kristian Sandberg , Samantha L. Budd Haeberlein and Mats A. A. Persson
Migration and differentiation of neural precursor cells can be directed by microglia
PNAS, December 23, 2003, vol. 100, no. 26, 15983-15988. 

Karen S. Aboody, Alice Brown, Nikolai G. Rainov, Kate A. Bower, Shaoxiong Liu, Wendy Yang, Juan E. Small, Ulrich Herrlinger, Vaclav Ourednik, Peter McL. Black, Xandra O. Breakefield, and Evan Y. Snyder
Neural stem cells display extensive tropism for pathology in adult brain: Evidence from intracranial gliomas
PNAS, November 7, 2000, vol. 97, no. 23, 12846-12851 

Dirks PB
Glioma migration: clues from the biology of neural progenitor cells and embryonic CNS cell migration
J Neurooncol. 2001 Jun;53(2):203-12. 

Lixin Sun, Jeongwu Lee and Howard A. Fine
Neuronally expressed stem cell factor induces neural stem cell migration to areas of brain injury 
J. Clin. Invest., May 1 2004, Volume 113, Issue 9, 1364-1374. 

Brain Tumors arise from Stem Cells?

Hemmati HD, Nakano I, Lazareff JA, Masterman-Smith M, Geschwind DH, Bronner-Fraser M, Kornblum HI
Cancerous stem cells can arise from pediatric brain tumors
PNAS, December 9, 2003, vol. 100 no. 25, 15178-15183 

François Berger, Emmanuel Gay, Laurent Pelletier, Philippe Tropel and Didier Wion
Development of gliomas: potential role of asymmetrical cell division of neural stem cells
Lancet Oncololy, Volume 5, Issue 8, 1 August 2004, Pages 511-514. 

Brain Tumors contain Cancer Stem Cells

Sheila K. Singh, Ian D. Clarke, Mizuhiko Terasaki, Victoria E. Bonn, Cynthia Hawkins, Jeremy Squire and Peter B. Dirks
Identification of a Cancer Stem Cell in Human Brain Tumors
Cancer Research 63, 5821-5828, September 15, 2003. 

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