Etiology and Pathogenesis > Tumor Biology


Basic Science


Thi Bui and Craig B. Thompson
Cancer's sweet tooth
Cancer Cell, Vol 9, 419-420, 13 June 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.05.012. Available online 12 June 2006

Valeria R. Fantin, Julie St-Pierre, and Philip Leder
Attenuation of LDH-A expression uncovers a link between glycolysis, mitochondrial physiology, and tumor maintenance
Cancer Cell, Vol 9, 425-434, 13 June 2006. DOI 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.04.023. Available online 12 June 2006

Peter Grandics
The cancer stem cell: Evidence for its origin as an injured autoreactive T Cell
Molecular Cancer 2006, 5:6; doi:10.1186/1476-4598-5-6; Published 14 February 2006

Ian J. Davis, Jessica J. Kim, Fatih Ozsolak, Hans R. Widlund, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Scott R. Granter, Jinyan Du, Jonathan A. Fletcher, Christopher T. Denny, Stephen L. Lessnick, W. Marston Linehan, Andrew L. Kung and David E. Fisher
Oncogenic MITF dysregulation in clear cell sarcoma: Defining the MiT family of human cancers
Cancer Cell, Volume 9, Issue 6, 13 June 2006, Pages 473-484, Available online 12 June 2006; doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2006.04.021

Miryam Ducasse and Mark A Brown
Epigenetic aberrations and cancer
Molecular Cancer 2006, 5:60; doi:10.1186/1476-4598-5-60; Published: 8 November 2006.

Adam Ertel, Arun Verghese, Stephen W Byers, Michael Ochs and Aydin Tozeren
Pathway-specific differences between tumor cell lines and normal and tumor tissue cells
Molecular Cancer 2006, 5:55; doi:10.1186/1476-4598-5-55; Published 2 November 2006

Andrei P Kozlov, Yuri P Galachyants, Ilya V Duhovlinov, Nickolai A Samusik, Anna V Baranova, Dmitry E Polev and Larisa L Krukovskaja
Evolutionarily new sequences expressed in tumors
Infectious Agents and Cancer 2006, 1:8; doi:10.1186/1750-9378-1-8; Published 25 December 2006

Lauren M.F. Merlo, John W. Pepper, Brian J. Reid and Carlo C. Maley
Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process
Nature Reviews Cancer 6, 924-935 (December 2006)

Thuy L. Phung, Keren Ziv, Donnette Dabydeen, Godfred Eyiah-Mensah, Marcela Riveros, Carole Perruzzi, Jingfang Sun, Rita A. Monahan-Earley, Ichiro Shiojima, Janice A. Nagy, Michelle I. Lin, Kenneth Walsh, Ann M. Dvorak, David M. Briscoe, Michal Neeman, William C. Sessa, Harold F. Dvorak, and Laura E. Benjamin
Pathological angiogenesis is induced by sustained Akt signaling and inhibited by rapamycin
Cancer Cell, Vol 10, 159-170, August 2006. Published: August 14, 2006.

Raul A. Ruggiero and Oscar D. Bustuoabad
The biological sense of cancer: a hypothesis
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2006, 3:43; doi:10.1186/1742-4682-3-43; Published 15 December 2006

Zhang W, Shannon WD, Duncan J, Scheffer GL, Scheper RJ, McLeod HL. 
Expression of drug pathway proteins is independent of tumor type
Journal of Pathology, Early View, Published Online: 28 Feb 2006, DOI: 10.1002/path.1955
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Brain Tumors


Dirks P.
Bmi1 and cell of origin determinants of brain tumor phenotype.
Cancer Cell. 2007 Oct;12(4):295-7.
Abstract

German G. Gomez, Susana B. Read, Lazaro E. Gerschenson, Daniela Santoli, Adam Zweifach, Carol A. Kruse
Interactions of the allogeneic effector leukemic T cell line, TALL-104, with human malignant brain tumors
Neuro-Oncology, April 2004, Volume 6, Number 2, Pages 83 – 95 (Abstract+)


Gliomas


Marcela Assanah, Richard Lochhead, Alfred Ogden, Jeffrey Bruce, James Goldman, and Peter Canoll
Glial Progenitors in Adult White Matter Are Driven to Form Malignant Gliomas by Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-Expressing Retroviruses
The Journal of Neuroscience, June 21, 2006, 26(25):6781-6790

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Beth Stevens and R. Douglas Fields
Regulation of the Cell Cycle in Normal and Pathological Glia
The Neuroscientist, Apr 2002; vol. 8: pp. 93 - 97
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Wu X, Hu J, Zhou L, Mao Y, Yang B, Gao L, Xie R, Xu F, Zhang D, Liu J, Zhu J
In vivo tracking of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle-labeled mesenchymal stem cell tropism to malignant gliomas using magnetic resonance imaging
J Neurosurg. 2008 Feb;108(2):320-9
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DBLinks | BL 7:4


Glioblastoma


Balenci L, Clarke ID, Dirks PB, Assard N, Ducray F, Jouvet A, Belin MF, Honnorat J, Baudier J.
IQGAP1 Protein Specifies Amplifying Cancer Cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme.
Cancer Res. 2006 Sep 15;66(18):9074-82.
Abstract

Elizabeth A. Maher, Cameron Brennan, Patrick Y. Wen, Laura Durso, Keith L. Ligon, Aaron Richardson, Deepak Khatry, Bin Feng, Raktim Sinha, David N. Louis, John Quackenbush, Peter McL. Black, Lynda Chin and Ronald A. DePinho
Marked Genomic Differences Characterize Primary and Secondary Glioblastoma Subtypes and Identify Two Distinct Molecular and Clinical Secondary Glioblastoma Entities
Cancer Research 66, 11502-11513, December 1, 2006.Published Online First November 17, 2006;doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2072

Roth P, Mittelbronn M, Wick W, Meyermann R, Tatagiba M, Weller M. 
Malignant Glioma Cells Counteract Antitumor Immune Responses through Expression of Lectin-Like Transcript-1.
Cancer Res. 2007 Apr 15;67(8):3540-4.
PMID: 17440061 [PubMed - in process]


Ruano Y, Mollejo M, Camacho FI, de Lope AR, Fiaño C, Ribalta T, Martínez P, Hernández-Moneo JL, Meléndez B
Identification of survival-related genes of the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase signaling pathway in glioblastoma multiforme
Cancer. 2008 Feb 7; [Epub ahead of print]
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Medulloblastoma


E Ferretti, L Di Marcotullio, M Gessi, T Mattei, A Greco, A Po, E De Smaele, F Giangaspero, R Riccardi, C Di Rocco, S Pazzaglia, M Maroder, M Alimandi, I Screpanti and A Gulino
Alternative splicing of the ErbB-4 cytoplasmic domain and its regulation by hedgehog signaling identify distinct medulloblastoma subsets
Oncogene advance online publication 31 July 2006; doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209716


Pediatric Brain Tumors


Mandeep S. Tamber, Krishan Bansal, Muh-Lii Liang, Todd G. Mainprize, Bodour Salhia, Paul Northcott, Michael Taylor and James T. Rutka
Current concepts in the molecular genetics of pediatric brain tumors: implications for emerging therapies
Child's Nervous System, Vol 22, No 11, Nov, 2006, Pages 1379-1394. DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0187-3, Published online: 2 Sept 2006

 

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