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NEWSLETTER
Volume 6, Number 20 - 14 May 2007

Volume 6
Archive


Contents


Diagnosis
Epidemiology & Risk Factors
Etiology & Pathogenesis
Overall Management
Treatment

Diagnosis


Bookheimer S. 
Pre-Surgical Language Mapping with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Neuropsychol Rev. 2007 May 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17484055 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Higashida T, Sakata K, Kanno H, Tanabe Y, Kawasaki T, Yamamoto I. 
[Intracranial chondroma arising from the skull base: two case reports featuring the image findings for differential diagnosis]
No Shinkei Geka. 2007 May;35(5):495-501. Japanese.
PMID: 17491346 [PubMed - in process]
Pauliah M, Saxena V, Haris M, Husain N, Rathore RK, Gupta RK. 
Improved T(1)-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to probe microvascularity and heterogeneity of human glioma.
Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 May 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17490844 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Epidemiology & Risk Factors


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Connelly JM, Malkin MG. 
Environmental risk factors for brain tumors.
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2007 May;7(3):208-14.
PMID: 17488586 [PubMed - in process]


Etiology & Pathogenesis


Aktas O, Schulze-Topphoff U, Zipp F. 
The role of TRAIL/TRAIL receptors in central nervous system pathology.
Front Biosci. 2007 May 1;12:2912-21.
PMID: 17485268 [PubMed - in process]
Fisk L, Nalivaeva NN, Boyle JP, Peers CS, Turner AJ. 
Effects of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress on Expression of Neprilysin in Human Neuroblastoma Cells and Rat Cortical Neurones and Astrocytes.
Neurochem Res. 2007 May 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17486446 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

McClung HM, Thomas SL, Osenkowski P, Toth M, Menon P, Raz A, Fridman R, Rempel SA. 
SPARC upregulates MT1-MMP expression, MMP-2 activation, and the secretion and cleavage of galectin-3 in U87MG glioma cells.
Neurosci Lett. 2007 Apr 21; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17490812 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Mittelbronn M, Capper D, Bunz B, Dietz K, Goeppert B, Ajaaj R, Tabatabai G, Stubenvoll F, Schlaszus H, Merseburger AS, Becker R, Freudenstein D, Wick W, Weller M, Meyermann R, Simon P. 
De novo erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R) expression in human neoplastic glial cells decreases with grade of malignancy but is favourably associated with patient survival.
Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2007 Jun;33(3):299-307.
PMID: 17493011 [PubMed - in process]

Olson MV, Johnson DG, Jiang H, Xu J, Alonso MM, Aldape KD, Fuller GN, Bekele BN, Yung WK, Gomez-Manzano C, Fueyo J. 
Transgenic E2F1 Expression in the Mouse Brain Induces a Human-Like Bimodal Pattern of Tumors.
Cancer Res. 2007 May 1;67(9):4005-4009.
PMID: 17483310 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Palmieri D, Bronder JL, Herring JM, Yoneda T, Weil RJ, Stark AM, Kurek R, Vega-Valle E, Feigenbaum L, Halverson D, Vortmeyer AO, Steinberg SM, Aldape K, Steeg PS. 
Her-2 overexpression increases the metastatic outgrowth of breast cancer cells in the brain.
Cancer Res. 2007 May 1;67(9):4190-8.
PMID: 17483330 [PubMed - in process]

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Panagiotakos G, Tabar V. 
Brain tumor stem cells.
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2007 May;7(3):215-20.
PMID: 17488587 [PubMed - in process]

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Saito N, Hatori T, Murata N, Zhang ZA, Ishikawa F, Nonaka H, Iwabuchi S, Samejima H. 
A double three-step theory of brain metastasis in mice: the role of the pia mater and matrix metalloproteinases.
Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2007 Jun;33(3):288-98.
PMID: 17493010 [PubMed - in process]

Zajdel A, Wilczok A, Slowinski J, Orchel J, Mazurek U. 
Aldehydic lipid peroxidation products in human brain astrocytomas.
J Neurooncol. 2007 May 9; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17487452 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


Overall Management


* Ekenel M, Deangelis LM. 
Treatment of primary central nervous system lymphoma.
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2007 May;7(3):191-9.
PMID: 17488584 [PubMed - in process]

* Gerstner E, Batchelor T. 
Primary CNS lymphoma.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007 May;7(5):689-700.
PMID: 17492932 [PubMed - in process]

Kinashi Y, Sakurai Y, Masunaga S, Suzuki M, Nagata K, Ono K. 
Evaluation of Micronucleus Induction in Lymphocytes of Patients Following Boron-Neutron-Capture-Therapy: A Comparison with Thyroid Cancer Patients treated with radioiodine.
J Radiat Res (Tokyo). 2007 May 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17485918 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

* Noguchi CT, Asavaritikrai P, Teng R, Jia Y. 
Role of erythropoietin in the brain.
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2007 May 3; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17482474 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ohdaira H, Murai R, Hanyu N, Abe M, Yanaga K. 
Gastric cancer producing AFP/HCG which had a rapidly progressive course with metastasis to the brain discovered postoperatively.
Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi. 2007 May;104(5):666-70.
PMID: 17485946 [PubMed - in process]

Raab S, Plate KH. 
Different networks, common growth factors: shared growth factors and receptors of the vascular and the nervous system.
Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 2007 May 10; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17492293 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Ryang YM, Oertel MF, Thron A, Gilsbach J, Rohde V. 
Rare intramedullary hemorrhage of a brainstem hemangioblastoma.
Zentralbl Neurochir. 2007 Feb;68(1):29-33.
PMID: 17487806 [PubMed - in process]

Smith M, Omidi Y, Gumbleton M. 
Primary porcine brain microvascular endothelial cells: Biochemical and functional characterisation as a model for drug transport and targeting.
J Drug Target. 2007 May;15(4):253-68.
PMID: 17487694 [PubMed - in process]
Vazquez JP, Cobo SL, Anton FM, Asado AC, Vidart JA, Coronado P, Diaz-Rubio E. 
Brain metastasis and carcinomatous meningitis from vulvar squamous cell carcinoma: case report.
Eur J Gynaecol Oncol. 2007;28(2):152-4.
PMID: 17479684 [PubMed - in process]


Treatment


Jiang Z, Pore N, Cerniglia GJ, Mick R, Georgescu MM, Bernhard EJ, Hahn SM, Gupta AK, Maity A. 
Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue Deficiency in Glioblastoma Confers Resistance to Radiation and Temozolomide that Is Reversed by the Protease Inhibitor Nelfinavir.
Cancer Res. 2007 May 1;67(9):4467-73.
PMID: 17483362 [PubMed - in process]

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Korones DN. 
Treatment of newly diagnosed diffuse brain stem gliomas in children: in search of the holy grail.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007 May;7(5):663-74.
PMID: 17492930 [PubMed - in process]

Kosulin K, Haberler C, Hainfellner J, Amann G, Lang S, Lion T. 
Investigation of adenovirus occurrence in pediatric tumor entities.
J Virol. 2007 May 9; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17494079 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Leer JW, Houtte PV, Seegenschmiedt H. 
Radiotherapy of non-malignant disorders: Where do we stand?
Radiother Oncol. 2007 May 7; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17490769 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Lin KC, Cheng TJ, Yung JM, Kuo JR. 
Malignant astrocytoma following radiation for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature.
Acta Neurol Taiwan. 2007 Mar;16(1):27-32.
PMID: 17486730 [PubMed - in process]

Minniti G, Jaffrain-Rea ML, Osti M, Cantore G, Enrici RM. 
Radiotherapy for nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas: from conventional to modern stereotactic radiation techniques.
Neurosurg Rev. 2007 May 5; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17483973 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Penas-Prado M, Gilbert MR. 
Molecularly targeted therapies for malignant gliomas: advances and challenges.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007 May;7(5):641-61.
PMID: 17492929 [PubMed - in process]

Rades D, Bohlen G, Pluemer A, Veninga T, Hanssens P, Dunst J, Schild SE. 
Stereotactic radiosurgery alone versus resection plus whole-brain radiotherapy for 1 or 2 brain metastases in recursive partitioning analysis class 1 and 2 patients.
Cancer. 2007 May 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17487853 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Reardon DA, Zalutsky MR, Bigner DD. 
Antitenascin-C monoclonal antibody radioimmunotherapy for malignant glioma patients.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007 May;7(5):675-87.
PMID: 17492931 [PubMed - in process]

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