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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 11 - 12 March 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis & Evaluation
Epidemiology & Risk Factors
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Integrative Medicine
Overall Management
Psychosocial Aspects
Treatment

Diagnosis & Evaluation


Du S, Mao X, Sajda P, Shungu DC. 
Automated tissue segmentation and blind recovery of (1)H MRS imaging spectral patterns of normal and diseased human brain.
NMR Biomed. 2007 Mar 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17347991 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Engelhardt M, Hansen C, Eyding J, Wilkening W, Brenke C, Krogias C, Scholz M, Harders A, Ermert H, Schmieder K. 
Feasibility of contrast-enhanced sonography during resection of cerebral tumours: initial results of a prospective study.
Ultrasound Med Biol. 2007 Apr;33(4):571-5.
PMID: 17337111 [PubMed - in process]

Lau PY, Ozawa S, Voon FC. 
Using block-based multiparameter representation to detect tumor features on T2-weighted brain MRI images.
Methods Inf Med. 2007;46(2):236-41.
PMID: 17347763 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Roche PH, Robitail S, Regis J. 
Two- and three dimensional measures of vestibular schwannomas and posterior fossa - implications for the treatment.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2007 Mar;149(3):267-73. Epub 2007 Feb 16.
PMID: 17342379 [PubMed - in process]


Epidemiology & Risk Factors


Chen AM, Jahan TM, Jablons DM, Garcia J, Larson DA. 
Risk of cerebral metastases and neurological death after pathological complete response to neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer: clinical implications for the subsequent management of the brain.
Cancer. 2007 Apr 15;109(8):1668-75.
PMID: 17342770 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Dhandapani KM, Khan MM, Wade FM, Wakade C, Mahesh VB, Brann DW. 
Induction of transforming growth factor-beta1 by basic fibroblast growth factor in rat C6 glioma cells and astrocytes is mediated by MEK/ERK signaling and AP-1 activation.
J Neurosci Res. 2007 Apr;85(5):1033-45.
PMID: 17335076 [PubMed - in process]

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Koturbash I, Boyko A, Rodriguez-Juarez R, McDonald R, Tryndyak V, Kovalchuk I, Pogribny I, Kovalchuk O. 
Role of epigenetic effectors in maintenance of the long-term persistent bystander effect in spleen in vivo.
Carcinogenesis. 2007 Mar 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17347136 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Papadopoulos MC, Verkman AS. 
Aquaporin-4 and brain edema.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2007 Jun;22(6):778-84. Epub 2007 Mar 9.
PMID: 17347837 [PubMed - in process]

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Scadden DT. 
The stem cell niche in health and leukemic disease.
Best Pract Res Clin Haematol. 2007 Mar;20(1):19-27. Review.
PMID: 17336251 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Warth A, Simon P, Capper D, Goeppert B, Tabatabai G, Herzog H, Dietz K, Stubenvoll F, Ajaaj R, Becker R, Weller M, Meyermann R, Wolburg H, Mittelbronn M. 
Expression pattern of the water channel aquaporin-4 in human gliomas is associated with blood-brain barrier disturbance but not with patient survival.
J Neurosci Res. 2007 May 1;85(6):1336-46.
PMID: 17335082 [PubMed - in process]

Xu J, Peng H, Zhang JT. 
Human multidrug transporter ABCG2, a target for sensitizing drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy.
Curr Med Chem. 2007;14(6):689-701. Review.
PMID: 17346156 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Integrative Medicine


Holick CN, Giovannucci EL, Rosner B, Stampfer MJ, Michaud DS. 
Prospective study of intake of fruit, vegetables, and carotenoids and the risk of adult glioma.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Mar;85(3):877-86.
PMID: 17344512 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Overall Management


Afshar A, Ayatollahy H, Lotfinejad S. 
A rare metastasis in the hand: a case of cutaneous metastasis of choriocarcinoma to the small finger.
J Hand Surg [Am]. 2007 Mar;32(3):393-6.
PMID: 17336850 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Ahn JY, Chang JH, Kim SH, Lee KS. 
Pleomorphic adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland with multiple intracranial and spinal metastases.
World J Surg Oncol. 2007 Mar 7;5:29.
PMID: 17341319 [PubMed - in process]
Anderson JT, Lucas GL. 
Extraskeletal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the forearm: a case report.
J Hand Surg [Am]. 2007 Mar;32(3):389-92.
PMID: 17336849 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Karikari IO, Selznick LA, Cummings TJ, George TM. 
Spinal capillary hemangioma in infants: report of two cases and review of the literature.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):125-9. Review.
PMID: 17337925 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Khan MA, Hashmi S. 
Low-grade astrocytoma causing calvarial scalloping.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):155-7.
PMID: 17337932 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Kotil K. 
Pathological fracture of the atlas secondary to plasmacytoma.
J Clin Neurosci. 2007 May;14(5):492-4. Epub 2007 Mar 7.
PMID: 17346972 [PubMed - in process]

Monsalve G, Luque JC. 
Giant suprasellar arachnoid cyst. A case with severe brain stem compression: an incidental finding in a head trauma.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2007;43(2):174-6. No abstract available.
PMID: 17337937 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Sengoz A, Tasdemiroglu E, Togay H. 
Is clear cell sarcoma a malignant form of psammomatous melanotic schwannoma? Case report.
Neurosurg Focus. 2006 Dec 15;21(6):E11. Review.
PMID: 17341045 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Tomita H, Kawamoto R. 
[Case of rectal carcinoma discovered after extracting a single brain metastasis]
Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. 2007 Jan;44(1):122-5. Review. Japanese.
PMID: 17337865 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Wancata J, Sobocki P, Katschnig H; Cost of Disorders of the Brain in Europe Study Group. 
[Cost of disorders of the brain in Austria in the year 2004]
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2007;119(3-4):91-8. German.
PMID: 17347857 [PubMed - in process]


Psychosocial Aspects


Brouwer CA, Gietema JA, Kamps WA, de Vries EG, Postma A. 
Changes in body composition after childhood cancer treatment: Impact on future health status-A review.
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2007 Jul;63(1):32-46. Epub 2007 Mar 6.
PMID: 17344062 [PubMed - in process]

Stubblefield MD, Bilsky MH. 
Barriers to rehabilitation of the neurosurgical spine cancer patient.
J Surg Oncol. 2007 Apr 1;95(5):419-26.
PMID: 17345619 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Treatment


Angell-Petersen E, Hirschberg H, Madsen SJ. 
Determination of fluence rate and temperature distributions in the rat brain; implications for photodynamic therapy.
J Biomed Opt. 2007 Jan-Feb;12(1):014003.
PMID: 17343478 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Chang JE, Robins HI, Mehta MP. 
Therapeutic advances in the treatment of brain metastases.
Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2007 Jan;5(1):54-64. Review.
PMID: 17339829 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Entin-Meer M, Rephaeli A, Yang X, Nudelman A, Nudelman A, Haas-Kogan DA. 
AN-113, a novel prodrug of 4-phenylbutyrate with increased anti-neoplastic activity in glioma cell lines.
Cancer Lett. 2007 Mar 6; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17346876 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Gururangan S. 
Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant childhood brain tumors.
Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2007 Feb;5(2):120-2. No abstract available.
PMID: 17344801 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Hazrati SM, Aghazadeh J, Mohtarami F, Abouzari M, Rashidi A. 
Immunotherapy of prolactinoma with a T helper 1 activator adjuvant and autoantigens: a case report.
Neuroimmunomodulation. 2006;13(4):205-8. Epub 2007 Mar 2.
PMID: 17337912 [PubMed - in process]

Karmakar S, Banik NL, Patel SJ, Ray SK. 
5-Aminolevulinic acid-based photodynamic therapy suppressed survival factors and activated proteases for apoptosis in human glioblastoma U87MG cells.
Neurosci Lett. 2007 Mar 30;415(3):242-7. Epub 2007 Feb 11.
PMID: 17335970 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Kim DW, Seo SW, Cho SK, Chang SS, Lee HW, Lee SE, Block JA, Hei TK, Lee FY. 
Targeting of cell survival genes using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) enhances radiosensitivity of Grade II chondrosarcoma cells.
J Orthop Res. 2007 Jun;25(6):820-8.
PMID: 17343283 [PubMed - in process]

Mamelak AN, Jacoby DB. 
Targeted delivery of antitumoral therapy to glioma and other malignancies with synthetic chlorotoxin (TM-601).
Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2007 Mar;4(2):175-86. Review.
PMID: 17335414 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Nahar M, Dutta T, Murugesan S, Asthana A, Mishra D, Rajkumar V, Tare M, Saraf S, Jain NK. 
Functional polymeric nanoparticles: an efficient and promising tool for active delivery of bioactives.
Crit Rev Ther Drug Carrier Syst. 2006;23(4):259-318. Review.
PMID: 17341200 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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