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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 4 - 22 January 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Treatment

Diagnosis


Hormigo A, Gutin PH, Rafii S. 
Tracking normalization of brain tumor vasculature by magnetic imaging and proangiogenic biomarkers.
Cancer Cell. 2007 Jan;11(1):6-8. Review.
PMID: 17222788 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


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Calabrese C, Poppleton H, Kocak M, Hogg TL, Fuller C, Hamner B, Oh EY, Gaber MW, Finklestein D, Allen M, Frank A, Bayazitov IT, Zakharenko SS, Gajjar A, Davidoff A, Gilbertson RJ. 
A perivascular niche for brain tumor stem cells.
Cancer Cell. 2007 Jan;11(1):69-82.
PMID: 17222791 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Lassman AB, Rossi MR, Raizer JJ, Abrey LE, Lieberman FS, Grefe CN, Lamborn K, Pao W, Shih AH, Kuhn JG, Wilson R, Nowak NJ, Cowell JK, DeAngelis LM, Wen P, Gilbert MR, Chang S, Yung WA, Prados M, Holland EC. 
Molecular study of malignant gliomas treated with epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors: tissue analysis from North American Brain Tumor Consortium Trials 01-03 and 00-01.
Clin Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 1;11(21):7841-50. Erratum in: Clin Cancer Res. 2006 Jan 1;12(1):322. Razier, Jeffrey R [corrected to Raizer, Jeffrey J].
PMID: 16278407 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Shih AH, Holland EC. 
Notch signaling enhances nestin expression in gliomas.
Neoplasia. 2006 Dec;8(12):1072-82.
PMID: 17217625 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Shih AH, Holland EC. 
Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and glial tumorigenesis.
Cancer Lett. 2006 Feb 8;232(2):139-47. Epub 2005 Aug 31. Review.
PMID: 16139423 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Shih AH, Holland EC. 
Developmental neurobiology and the origin of brain tumors.
J Neurooncol. 2004 Nov;70(2):125-36. Review.
PMID: 15674474 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Shih AH, Dai C, Hu X, Rosenblum MK, Koutcher JA, Holland EC. 
Dose-dependent effects of platelet-derived growth factor-B on glial tumorigenesis.
Cancer Res. 2004 Jul 15;64(14):4783-9.
PMID: 15256447 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Takenaga K, Nygren J, Zelenina M, Ohira M, Iuchi T, Lukanidin E, Sjoquist M, Kozlova EN. 
Modified expression of Mts1/S100A4 protein in C6 glioma cells or surrounding astrocytes affects migration of tumor cells in vitro and in vivo.
Neurobiol Dis. 2007 Mar;25(3):455-63. Epub 2007 Jan 12.
PMID: 17223348 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Yang ZJ, Wechsler-Reya RJ. 
Hit 'em where they live: targeting the cancer stem cell niche.
Cancer Cell. 2007 Jan;11(1):3-5. Review.
PMID: 17222787 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Treatment


Candolfi M, Kroeger KM, Pluhar GE, Bergeron J, Puntel M, Curtin JF, McNiel EA, Freese AB, Ohlfest JR, Moore P, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. 
Adenoviral-mediated gene transfer into the canine brain in vivo.
Neurosurgery. 2007 Jan;60(1):167-77; discussion 178.
PMID: 17228266 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Gupta B, Torchilin VP. 
Monoclonal antibody 2C5-modified doxorubicin-loaded liposomes with significantly enhanced therapeutic activity against intracranial human brain U-87 MG tumor xenografts in nude mice.
Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2007 Aug;56(8):1215-23. Epub 2007 Jan 12.
PMID: 17219149 [PubMed - in process]

Kim CK, Hong SH, Joe YA, Shim BS, Lee SK, Hong YK. 
The recombinant kringle domain of urokinase plasminogen activator inhibits in vivo malignant glioma growth.
Cancer Sci. 2007 Feb;98(2):253-8.
PMID: 17233842 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Liu TC, Kirn D. 
Systemic efficacy with oncolytic virus therapeutics: clinical proof-of-concept and future directions.
Cancer Res. 2007 Jan 15;67(2):429-32. Review.
PMID: 17234747 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Yang L, Jackson E, Woerner BM, Perry A, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. 
Blocking CXCR4-mediated cyclic AMP suppression inhibits brain tumor growth in vivo.
Cancer Res. 2007 Jan 15;67(2):651-8.
PMID: 17234775 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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