A Kwiatkowska, MS Nandhu, P Behera, EA Chiocca… - Cancers, 2013 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive form of brain cancer, with a dismal prognosis and extremely low percentage of survivors. Novel therapies are in dire need to improve the …
The off-target distribution of anticancer nanoparticles to fibroblasts creates a barrier to the effective treatment of desmoplastic tumors. However, we hypothesized that this nanoparticle …
J Portnow, TW Synold, B Badie, R Tirughana… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Human neural stem cells (NSC) are inherently tumor tropic, making them attractive drug delivery vehicles. Toward this goal, we retrovirally transduced an immortalized, clonal …
Therapeutically engineered stem cells have shown promise for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) therapy; however, key preclinical studies are urgently needed for their clinical …
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 …
LG Menon, K Kelly, HW Yang, SK Kim, PM Black… - Stem …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastoma is among the most aggressive and treatment resistant of all human cancers. Conventional therapeutic approaches are unsuccessful because of diffuse infiltrative …
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 …
AY Benmelouka, M Munir, A Sayed, MS Attia… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gliomas, which account for nearly a quarter of all primary CNS tumors, present significant contemporary therapeutic challenges, particularly the highest-grade variant (glioblastoma …
Engineered stem cell (SC)-based therapy holds enormous promise for treating the incurable brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM). Retaining the cytotoxic SCs in the surgical cavity after …