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Volume
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Number 2 - 15 January 2008
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Epidemiology
& Risk
Factors
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Davis FS
Epidemiology of brain tumors
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2007
Dec;7(12 Suppl):S3-6
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Dearlove JV, Fisher PG, Buffler PA
Family History of Cancer
Among Children With Brain Tumors: A Critical Review
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2008
Jan;30(1):8-14
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Etiology & Pathogenesis
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Shirahata M, Iwao-Koizumi K, Saito S, Ueno N,
Oda M, Hashimoto N, Takahashi JA, Kato K
Gene expression-based molecular diagnostic system for malignant gliomas is
superior to histological diagnosis
Clin
Cancer Res. 2007 Dec 15;13(24):7341-56
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Yip S, Iafrate AJ, Louis DN
Molecular diagnostic testing in malignant gliomas: a
practical update on predictive markers
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Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2008 Jan;67(1):1-15
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Overall Management
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Daniel A. Lim, Soonmee Cha,
Mary C. Mayo, Mei-Hsiu Chen, Evren Keles,
Scott VandenBerg and Mitchel S. Berger
Relationship of glioblastoma multiforme to neural stem cell regions
predicts invasive and multifocal tumor phenotype
Neuro Oncol 2007 Oct 1. 9(4):424-429; DOI:10.1215/15228517-2007-023. First
published on July 10, 2007
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Frank B. Furnari,
Tim Fenton, Robert M. Bachoo, Akitake Mukasa,
Jayne M. Stommel, Alexander Stegh, William
C. Hahn, Keith L. Ligon, David N. Louis, Cameron
Brennan, Lynda Chin, Ronald A. DePinho, and
Webster K. Cavenee
Malignant astrocytic glioma: genetics, biology, and paths to
treatment
Genes & Dev., November 1, 2007; 21(21): 2683 - 2710
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Psychosocial
Aspects
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Micklewright JL, King TZ, Morris RD, Krawiecki N
Quantifying Pediatric Neuro-oncology Risk
Factors: Development of the Neurological Predictor Scale
J Child Neurol. 2008 Jan 8;
[Epub
ahead of print]
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S. H. Snyder
Seeking God in the Brain — Efforts to Localize Higher Brain Functions
N Engl J Med, Volume 358 — January 3, 2008 — Number 1
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Treatment
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Grauer OM, Sutmuller RP, van Maren W, Jacobs JF,
Bennink E, Toonen LW, Nierkens S, Adema GJ.
Elimination of regulatory T cells is essential
for an effective vaccination with tumor lysate-pulsed dendritic cells in a
murine glioma model
Int
J Cancer. 2007 Dec 12; [Epub ahead of print]
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Saidi A, Javerzat S, Bellahcène A, De Vos J,
Bello L, Castronovo V, Deprez M, Loiseau H, Bikfalvi A, Hagedorn M
Experimental anti-angiogenesis causes upregulation of genes associated with
poor survival in glioblastoma
Int
J Cancer. 2007 Dec 18; [Epub ahead of print]
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Yamini B, Yu X, Pytel P, Galanopoulos N, Rawlani
V, Veerapong J, Bickenbach K, Weichselbaum RR
Adenovirally delivered tumor necrosis
factor-alpha improves the antiglioma efficacy of concomitant radiation and
temozolomide therapy
Clin
Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 15;13(20):6217-23
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Stem
Cells
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Lee J, Son MJ, Woolard K, Donin NM, Li A, Cheng
CH, Kotliarova S, Kotliarov Y, Walling J, Ahn S, Kim M, Totonchy M, Cusack
T, Ene C, Ma H, Su Q, Zenklusen JC, Zhang W, Maric D, Fine HA
Epigenetic-mediated dysfunction of the bone morphogenetic protein pathway
inhibits differentiation of glioblastoma-initiating cells
Cancer Cell. 2008 Jan;13(1):69-80
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Nakano I, Saigusa K, Kornblum HI
BMPing Off Glioma Stem Cells
Cancer Cell. 2008 Jan 8;13(1):3-4
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Rubio D, Garcia S, Paz MF, De la Cueva T,
Lopez-Fernandez LA, Lloyd AC, Garcia-Castro J, Bernad A
Molecular Characterization of Spontaneous Mesenchymal Stem Cell
Transformation
PLoS ONE. 2008;
3(1):
e1398. Published online 2008 January 2. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0001398
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von Holst A
Tenascin C in Stem Cell Niches: Redundant, Permissive or Instructive?
Cells Tissues
Organs. 2007 Dec 21; [Epub ahead of print]
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Wu YY, Huang Q, Dong J, Lan Q
Correlation of stem cell niche to genesis and development of tumor stem
cells
Ai Zheng. 2008 Jan;27(1):109-12
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Zeppernick F, Ahmadi R, Campos B, Dictus C,
Helmke BM, Becker N, Lichter P, Unterberg A, Radlwimmer B, Herold-Mende CC
Stem Cell Marker CD133 Affects Clinical Outcome in Glioma Patients
Clin Cancer Res. 2008 Jan 1;14(1):123-9
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Library
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G. L. Banna, R. Pallini, L. Ricci-Vitiani, M.
Signore, D. Lombardi, M. Martini, G. Maira, D. Giuffrida, L. M. Larocca, and
R. De Maria
High prognostic potential of glioblastoma
stem
cell analysis
ASCO Meeting Abstracts, Jun 2007; 25: 10580
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Dagmar Beier, Peter Hau, Martin Proescholdt,
Annette Lohmeier, Jörg Wischhusen, Peter J. Oefner, Ludwig Aigner,
Alexander Brawanski, Ulrich Bogdahn, and Christoph P. Beier
CD133+ and CD133– Glioblastoma-Derived Cancer
Stem Cells Show Differential Growth Characteristics and Molecular Profiles
Cancer Research 67, 4010-4015, May 1, 2007. doi:
10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4180
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Xiu-wu Bian, Xiao-hong Yao, Yi-fang Ping,
Jian-hong Chen, and Ji Ming Wang
Glioblastoma stem cells produce angiogenic factors through
activation of chemokine receptor CXCR4
FASEB J. 2007 Mar; 21:lb314
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Christopher R. Calabrese, Helen Poppleton,
Andrew Davidoff, and Richard J. Gilbertson
The cancer stem cell niche in medulloblastoma
AACR Meeting Abstracts, Apr 2006; 2006: 1325
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Fiona Doetsch, Isabelle Caillé, Daniel A. Lim,
Jose Manuel García-Verdugo and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Subventricular Zone Astrocytes Are Neural Stem Cells in the Adult
Mammalian Brain
Cell, Volume 97, Issue 6, 11 June 1999, Pages 703-716
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Anna Erlandsson, Maria Enarsson, and Karin
Forsberg-Nilsson
Immature Neurons From CNS Stem Cells Proliferate in Response to
Platelet-Derived Growth Factor
The Journal of Neuroscience, May 15, 2001, 21(10):3483-3491
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Angela Gritti, Paola Frölichsthal-Schoeller,
Rossella Galli, Eugenio A. Parati, Lidia Cova, Stefano F. Pagano,
Christopher R. Bjornson, and Angelo L. Vescovi
Epidermal and Fibroblast Growth Factors Behave as Mitogenic Regulators
for a Single Multipotent Stem Cell-Like Population from the Subventricular
Region of the Adult Mouse Forebrain
The Journal of Neuroscience, May 1, 1999, 19(9):3287-3297
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A Gritti, EA Parati, L Cova, P Frolichsthal, R
Galli, E Wanke, L Faravelli, DJ Morassutti, F Roisen, DD Nickel and AL
Vescovi
Multipotential stem cells from the adult mouse brain proliferate and
self-renew in response to basic fibroblast growth factor
Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 16, 1091-1100. 1 Feb 1996.
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V. G. Kukekov, E. D. Laywell, O. Suslov, K.
Davies, B. Scheffler, L. B. Thomas, T. F. O'Brien, M. Kusakabe and D. A.
Steindler
Multipotent stem/progenitor cells with
similar properties arise from two neurogenic regions of adult human brain
Experimental Neurology Volume 156, Issue 2,
April 1999, Pages 333-344
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Ronald McKay
Stem Cells in the Central Nervous System
Science 4 April 1997: Vol. 276. no. 5309, pp. 66 - 71. DOI:
10.1126/science.276.5309.66
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Ichiro Nakano, Linda Liau, Jorge A. Lazareff,
Paul Mischel, and Harley Kornblum
Neural stem
cell genes and brain tumors: Identification of maternal embryonic leucine
zipper kinase (MELK) as an important regulator of glioblastoma
multiforme and medulloblastoma proliferation
AACR Meeting Abstracts, Apr 2006; 2006: 239
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Cosima V. Pfenninger, Teona Roschupkina, Falk
Hertwig, Denise Kottwitz, Elisabet Englund, Johan Bengzon, Sten Eirik
Jacobsen, and Ulrike A. Nuber
CD133
Is Not Present on Neurogenic Astrocytes in the Adult Subventricular Zone,
but on Embryonic Neural Stem Cells, Ependymal Cells, and Glioblastoma Cells
Cancer Research 67, 5727-5736, June 15, 2007. doi:
10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0183
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Report on the Workshop "New Technologies
in Stem Cell Research," Society for Pediatric Research, San Francisco,
California, April 29, 2006.
doi:10.1634/stemcells.2006-0397.
First published online January 25, 2007
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Brent A Reynolds
& Rodney L Rietze
Neural stem cells and neurospheres—re-evaluating the relationship
Nature Methods 2, 333 - 336 (2005).
Published online: 21 April 2005; doi:10.1038/nmeth758
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BA Reynolds, W Tetzlaff and S Weiss
A multipotent EGF-responsive striatal
embryonic progenitor cell produces neurons and astrocytes
Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 12, 4565-4574.
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Jeremy N. Rich
Cancer Stem Cells in Radiation Resistance
Cancer Research 67, 8980-8984, October 1, 2007. doi:
10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0895
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Cho-Lea Tso, Qinghai Liu, Kenneth Chung, Emil
Vasquez, Carrie Ng, Angel Yu, Volkan Coskun, Stanley F. Nelson, Linda Liau,
and Yi Sun
Mesenchymal properties in human glioblastoma stem cells
AACR Meeting Abstracts, Apr 2006; 2006: 241 - 242
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Patients
& Caregivers
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Kathy Oliver
Personal observations of the Society for Neuro-Oncology 12th
Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day (Dallas, Texas – 15
to 18 November 2007)
International Brain Tumour Alliance – IBTA
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Webcast
-- Patient Power-- "Skull
Base Surgery" on Tuesday,
February 5, 2008 at 7:00 pm Central
The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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