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 …

Liquid biopsy in lung cancer: significance in diagnostics, prediction, and treatment monitoring

W Li, JB Liu, LK Hou, F Yu, J Zhang, W Wu, XM Tang… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Primary lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in China. Approximately
60% of lung cancer patients have distant metastasis at the initial diagnosis, so it is …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals niche-specific enrichment and vulnerabilities of radial glial stem-like cells in malignant gliomas

Y Ren, Z Huang, L Zhou, P Xiao, J Song, P He… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diffuse midline glioma-H3K27M mutant (DMG) and glioblastoma (GBM) are the most lethal
brain tumors that primarily occur in pediatric and adult patients, respectively. Both tumors …

Tumor vessels fuel the fire in glioblastoma

S Rosińska, J Gavard - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma, a subset of aggressive brain tumors, deploy several means to increase blood
vessel supply dedicated to the tumor mass. This includes typical program borrowed from …

EZ Clear for simple, rapid, and robust mouse whole organ clearing

CW Hsu, J Cerda III, JM Kirk, WD Turner… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Tissue clearing for whole organ cell profiling has revolutionized biology and imaging for
exploration of organs in three-dimensional space without compromising tissue architecture …

Progress in building clinically relevant patient‐derived tumor xenograft models for cancer research

W Wang, Y Li, K Lin, X Wang, Y Tu… - Animal Models and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patient‐derived tumor xenograft (PDX) models, a method involving the surgical extraction of
tumor tissues from cancer patients and subsequent transplantation into immunodeficient …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing reveals tumor heterogeneity, microenvironment, and drug‐resistance mechanisms of recurrent glioblastoma

H Wu, C Guo, C Wang, J Xu, S Zheng, J Duan… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastomas are highly heterogeneous brain tumors. Despite the availability of standard
treatment for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), ie, Stupp protocol, which involves surgical …

Drug resistance in cancers: A free pass for bullying

J Li, X Li, Q Guo - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cancer burden continues to grow globally, and drug resistance remains a substantial
challenge in cancer therapy. It is well established that cancerous cells with clonal dysplasia …

The vascular microenvironment in glioblastoma: a comprehensive review

A Mosteiro, L Pedrosa, A Ferrés, D Diao, À Sierra… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma multiforme, the deadliest primary brain tumor, is characterized by an excessive
and aberrant neovascularization. The initial expectations raised by anti-angiogenic drugs …

Application of single-cell multi-omics in dissecting cancer cell plasticity and tumor heterogeneity

D Pan, D Jia - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tumor heterogeneity, a hallmark of cancer, impairs the efficacy of cancer therapy and drives
tumor progression. Exploring inter-and intra-tumoral heterogeneity not only provides insights …