Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: new pathophysiological insights and emerging therapeutic targets

T B. Johung, M Monje - Current Neuropharmacology, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is the leading cause of brain tumor-
related death in children, with median survival of less than one year. Despite decades of …

Therapeutic targets in diffuse midline gliomas—an emerging landscape

E Hayden, H Holliday, R Lehmann, A Khan, M Tsoli… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) remain one of the most devastating
childhood brain tumour types, for which there is currently no known cure. In this review we …

[HTML][HTML] 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine localizes to enhancer elements and is associated with survival in glioblastoma patients

KC Johnson, EA Houseman, JE King… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Glioblastomas exhibit widespread molecular alterations including a highly distorted
epigenome. Here, we resolve genome-wide 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine …

A driver role for GABA metabolism in controlling stem and proliferative cell state through GHB production in glioma

EA El-Habr, LG Dubois, F Burel-Vandenbos… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Cell populations with differing proliferative, stem-like and tumorigenic states co-exist in most
tumors and especially malignant gliomas. Whether metabolic variations can drive this …

Disrupting NOTCH slows diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma growth, enhances radiation sensitivity, and shows combinatorial efficacy with bromodomain inhibition

IC Taylor, M Hütt-Cabezas, WD Brandt… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
NOTCH regulates stem cells during normal development and stemlike cells in cancer, but
the roles of NOTCH in the lethal pediatric brain tumor diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) …

Pharmacologic Wnt inhibition reduces proliferation, survival, and clonogenicity of glioblastoma cells

UD Kahlert, AK Suwala, K Koch… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Wingless (Wnt) signaling is an important pathway in gliomagenesis and in the growth of
stem-like glioma cells. Using immunohistochemistry to assess the translocation of β-catenin …

LIN28B and let-7 in diffuse midline glioma: a review

T Knowles, T Huang, J Qi, S An, N Burket, S Cooper… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is a devastating pediatric brain tumor with
urgent unmet need for novel treatment modalities. LIN28B RNA binding protein is …

Portraits of TET-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation in cancer

J Jeschke, E Collignon, F Fuks - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2016 - Elsevier
The discovery of TET-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation as a mechanism of DNA
demethylation, along with the observation of disrupted hydroxymethylation patterns in …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances on the molecular pathology of glial neoplasms in children and adults

FJ Rodriguez, MA Vizcaino, MT Lin - The Journal of molecular diagnostics, 2016 - Elsevier
Gliomas represent the most common primary intraparenchymal tumors of the central
nervous system in adults and children and are a genetic and phenotypic heterogeneous …

Prostate cancer epigenetics: from basic mechanisms to clinical implications

S Yegnasubramanian… - Cold Spring …, 2019 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
A level of epigenetic programming, encoded by complex sets of chemical marks on DNA
and histones, and by context-specific DNA, RNA, protein interactions, that all regulate the …