Challenges in glioblastoma research: focus on the tumor microenvironment

A Bikfalvi, CA da Costa, T Avril, JV Barnier, L Bauchet… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most deadly type of malignant brain tumor, despite extensive
molecular analyses of GBM cells. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has …

Metabolomics for investigating physiological and pathophysiological processes

DS Wishart - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Metabolomics uses advanced analytical chemistry techniques to enable the high-throughput
characterization of metabolites from cells, organs, tissues, or biofluids. The rapid growth in …

Wnt and PI3K/Akt/mTOR survival pathways as therapeutic targets in glioblastoma

A Barzegar Behrooz, Z Talaie, F Jusheghani… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating type of brain tumor, and current therapeutic treatments,
including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, are palliative at best. The design of effective …

Altered cellular metabolism in gliomas—An emerging landscape of actionable co-dependency targets

J Bi, S Chowdhry, S Wu, W Zhang, K Masui… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Altered cellular metabolism is a hallmark of gliomas. Propelled by a set of recent
technological advances, new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying glioma …

Targeting energy metabolism in cancer stem cells: progress and challenges in leukemia and solid tumors

CL Jones, A Inguva, CT Jordan - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant stem cells have long been considered a key therapeutic target in leukemia.
Therapeutic strategies designed to target the fundamental biology of leukemia stem cells …

The lncRNA MACC1-AS1 promotes gastric cancer cell metabolic plasticity via AMPK/Lin28 mediated mRNA stability of MACC1

Y Zhao, Y Liu, L Lin, Q Huang, W He, S Zhang, S Dong… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background Metabolic plasticity has been increasingly thought to be a determinant of tumor
growth and metastasis. MACC1, a transcriptional regulator of MET, was recognized as an …

Ketogenic diet in cancer prevention and therapy: molecular targets and therapeutic opportunities

WH Talib, AI Mahmod, A Kamal, HM Rashid… - Current issues in …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although cancer is still one of the most significant global challenges facing public health, the
world still lacks complementary approaches that would significantly enhance the efficacy of …

Glucose metabolism on tumor plasticity, diagnosis, and treatment

X Lin, Z Xiao, T Chen, SH Liang, H Guo - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Malignant cells support tumor proliferation and progression by adopting to metabolic
changes. Tumor cells altered metabolism by increasing glucose uptake and fermentation of …

The adaptive transition of glioblastoma stem cells and its implications on treatments

Z Wang, H Zhang, S Xu, Z Liu, Q Cheng - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most malignant tumor occurring in the human central nervous system
with overall median survival time< 14.6 months. Current treatments such as chemotherapy …

Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells, Metabolic Strategy to Kill a Challenging Target

D Garnier, O Renoult, MC Alves-Guerra, F Paris… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over the years, substantial evidence has definitively confirmed the existence of cancer stem-
like cells within tumors such as Glioblastoma (GBM). The importance of Glioblastoma stem …