From Notochord Formation to Hereditary Chordoma: The Many Roles of Brachyury

Y Nibu, DS José-Edwards… - BioMed research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chordoma is a rare, but often malignant, bone cancer that preferentially affects the axial
skeleton and the skull base. These tumors are both sporadic and hereditary and appear to …

Chordoma: an update on the pathophysiology and molecular mechanisms

X Sun, F Hornicek, JH Schwab - Current reviews in musculoskeletal …, 2015 - Springer
Chordoma is a rare low-grade primary malignant skeletal tumor, which is presumed to
derive from notochord remnants. The pathogenesis of chordoma has not been fully …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced killing of chordoma cells by antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity employing the novel anti-PD-L1 antibody avelumab

R Fujii, ER Friedman, J Richards, KY Tsang… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chordoma, a rare bone tumor derived from the notochord, has been shown to be resistant to
conventional therapies. Checkpoint inhibition has shown great promise in immune-mediated …

Single-cell transcriptome reveals cellular hierarchies and guides p-EMT-targeted trial in skull base chordoma

Q Zhang, L Fei, R Han, R Huang, Y Wang, H Chen… - Cell discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Skull base chordoma (SBC) is a bone cancer with a high recurrence rate, high
radioresistance rate, and poorly understood mechanism. Here, we profiled the …

Functional role and therapeutic potential of the pim-1 kinase in colon carcinoma

U Weirauch, N Beckmann, M Thomas, A Grünweller… - Neoplasia, 2013 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The provirus integration site for Moloney murine leukemia virus 1 (Pim-1) kinase
is overexpressed in various tumors and has been linked to poor prognosis. Its role as proto …

Identification of methylation signatures and rules for sarcoma subtypes by machine learning methods

J Ren, XC Zhou, W Guo, KY Feng… - BioMed research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sarcoma, the second common type of solid tumor in children and adolescents, has a wide
variety of subtypes that are often not properly diagnosed at an early stage, leading to late …

Expression and therapeutic potential of SOX9 in chordoma

H Chen, CC Garbutt, D Spentzos, E Choy… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Conventional chemotherapeutic agents are ineffective in the treatment of
chordoma. We investigated the functional roles and therapeutic relevance of the sex …

Soft tissue chordomas: a clinicopathologic analysis of 11 cases

SR Lauer, MA Edgar, JM Gardner… - The American Journal …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Soft tissue chordomas (STCs) have never been systematically studied because of their rarity
and the difficulty in separating them from similar-appearing lesions. Using brachyury to …

MicroRNA expression profiling reveals the potential function of microRNA-31 in chordomas

OF Bayrak, S Gulluoglu, E Aydemir, U Ture… - Journal of neuro …, 2013 - Springer
Chordomas are rare bone tumors arising from remnants of the notochord. Molecular studies
to determine the pathways involved in their pathogenesis and develop better treatments are …

The molecular aspects of chordoma

S Gulluoglu, O Turksoy, A Kuskucu, U Ture… - Neurosurgical …, 2016 - Springer
Chordomas are one of the rarest bone tumors, and they originate from remnants of
embryonic notochord along the spine, more frequently at the skull base and sacrum …