The role of cancer stem cells in glioblastoma

SJ Sundar, JK Hsieh, S Manjila, JD Lathia, A Sloan - Neurosurgical focus, 2014 - thejns.org
Recurrence in glioblastoma is nearly universal, and its prognosis remains dismal despite
significant advances in treatment over the past decade. Glioblastoma demonstrates …

Reactive astrocytes in glioblastoma multiforme

X Guan, MN Hasan, S Maniar, W Jia, D Sun - Molecular Neurobiology, 2018 - Springer
Despite the multidisciplinary integration in the therapeutic management of glioblastoma
multiforme (GBM), the prognosis of GBM patients is poor. There is growing recognition that …

[HTML][HTML] First-in-human study of PET and optical dual-modality image-guided surgery in glioblastoma using 68Ga-IRDye800CW-BBN

D Li, J Zhang, C Chi, X Xiao, J Wang, L Lang, I Ali… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose: Despite the use of fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS), maximum safe resection of
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) remains a major challenge. It has restricted surgeons …

Therapeutically engineered induced neural stem cells are tumour-homing and inhibit progression of glioblastoma

JR Bagó, A Alfonso-Pecchio, O Okolie… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transdifferentiation (TD) is a recent advancement in somatic cell reprogramming. The direct
conversion of TD eliminates the pluripotent intermediate state to create cells that are ideal …

Reactive astrocytes potentiate tumor aggressiveness in a murine glioma resection and recurrence model

O Okolie, JR Bago, RS Schmid, DM Irvin… - Neuro …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background Surgical resection is a universal component of glioma therapy. Little is known
about the postoperative microenvironment due to limited preclinical models. Thus, we …

Fluorescent imaging of cancerous tissues for targeted surgery

L Bu, B Shen, Z Cheng - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
To maximize tumor excision and minimize collateral damage are the primary goals of cancer
surgery. Emerging molecular imaging techniques have made “image-guided surgery” …

Self-assembling and self-formulating prodrug hydrogelator extends survival in a glioblastoma resection and recurrence model

P Schiapparelli, P Zhang, M Lara-Velazquez… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and devastating type of primary brain
cancer. Despite surgery and chemo/radiation therapy, recurrence often takes place and …

Encapsulated stem cells loaded with hyaluronidase-expressing oncolytic virus for brain tumor therapy

J Martinez-Quintanilla, D He, H Wakimoto, R Alemany… - Molecular therapy, 2015 - cell.com
Despite the proven safety of oncolytic viruses (OV) in clinical trials for glioblastoma (GBM),
their efficacy has been hindered by suboptimal spreading within the tumor. We show that …

Tumor-homing cytotoxic human induced neural stem cells for cancer therapy

JR Bagó, O Okolie, R Dumitru, MG Ewend… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Engineered neural stem cells (NSCs) are a promising approach to treating glioblastoma
(GBM). The ideal NSC drug carrier for clinical use should be easily isolated and autologous …

Tumor microenvironment in glioma invasion

S Tamai, T Ichinose, T Tsutsui, S Tanaka, F Garaeva… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
A major malignant trait of gliomas is their remarkable infiltration capacity. When glioma
develops, the tumor cells have already reached the distant part. Therefore, complete …