Tumour heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity

CE Meacham, SJ Morrison - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity arise among cancer cells within the same tumour
as a consequence of genetic change, environmental differences and reversible changes in …

Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

K Aldape, KM Brindle, L Chesler, R Chopra… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, brain tumours remain among the deadliest of all forms of
cancer. The ability of these tumours to resist almost all conventional and novel treatments …

Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Molecular classification of ependymal tumors across all CNS compartments, histopathological grades, and age groups

KW Pajtler, H Witt, M Sill, DTW Jones, V Hovestadt… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Ependymal tumors across age groups are currently classified and graded solely by
histopathology. It is, however, commonly accepted that this classification scheme has limited …

Cells of origin in cancer

JE Visvader - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Both solid tumours and leukaemias show considerable histological and functional
heterogeneity. It is widely accepted that genetic lesions have a major role in determining …

Cancer stem cells: impact, heterogeneity, and uncertainty

JA Magee, E Piskounova, SJ Morrison - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
The differentiation of tumorigenic cancer stem cells into nontumorigenic cancer cells confers
heterogeneity to some cancers beyond that explained by clonal evolution or environmental …

Childhood cerebellar tumours mirror conserved fetal transcriptional programs

MC Vladoiu, I El-Hamamy, LK Donovan, H Farooq… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Study of the origin and development of cerebellar tumours has been hampered by the
complexity and heterogeneity of cerebellar cells that change over the course of …

miRTarBase update 2014: an information resource for experimentally validated miRNA-target interactions

SD Hsu, YT Tseng, S Shrestha, YL Lin… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules capable of negatively
regulating gene expression to control many cellular mechanisms. The miRTarBase …

C11orf95RELA fusions drive oncogenic NF-κB signalling in ependymoma

M Parker, KM Mohankumar, C Punchihewa, R Weinlich… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Members of the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) family of transcriptional regulators are central
mediators of the cellular inflammatory response. Although constitutive NF-κB signalling is …

Subtypes of medulloblastoma have distinct developmental origins

P Gibson, Y Tong, G Robinson, MC Thompson… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma encompasses a collection of clinically and molecularly diverse tumour
subtypes that together comprise the most common malignant childhood brain tumour …