Cancer neuroscience: State of the field, emerging directions

F Winkler, HS Venkatesh, M Amit, T Batchelor, IE Demir… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The nervous system governs both ontogeny and oncology. Regulating organogenesis
during development, maintaining homeostasis, and promoting plasticity throughout life, the …

Pathogenesis underlying neurological manifestations of long COVID syndrome and potential therapeutics

A Leng, M Shah, SA Ahmad, L Premraj, K Wildi… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of long-term symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) more
than four weeks after primary infection, termed “long COVID” or post-acute sequela of …

Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits

HS Venkatesh, W Morishita, AC Geraghty, D Silverbush… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-grade gliomas are lethal brain cancers whose progression is robustly regulated by
neuronal activity. Activity-regulated release of growth factors promotes glioma growth, but …

Glioblastoma remodelling of human neural circuits decreases survival

S Krishna, A Choudhury, MB Keough, K Seo, L Ni… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Gliomas synaptically integrate into neural circuits,. Previous research has demonstrated
bidirectional interactions between neurons and glioma cells, with neuronal activity driving …

Pharmacological inhibition of cystine–glutamate exchange induces endoplasmic reticulum stress and ferroptosis

SJ Dixon, DN Patel, M Welsch, R Skouta, ED Lee… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Exchange of extracellular cystine for intracellular glutamate by the antiporter system xc− is
implicated in numerous pathologies. Pharmacological agents that inhibit system xc− activity …

Glutamatergic synaptic input to glioma cells drives brain tumour progression

V Venkataramani, DI Tanev, C Strahle… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A network of communicating tumour cells that is connected by tumour microtubes mediates
the progression of incurable gliomas. Moreover, neuronal activity can foster malignant …

Reactive gliosis and the multicellular response to CNS damage and disease

JE Burda, MV Sofroniew - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
The CNS is prone to heterogeneous insults of diverse etiologies that elicit multifaceted
responses. Acute and focal injuries trigger wound repair with tissue replacement. Diffuse …

The neuroscience of cancer

R Mancusi, M Monje - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The nervous system regulates tissue stem and precursor populations throughout life.
Parallel to roles in development, the nervous system is emerging as a critical regulator of …

Remote neuronal activity drives glioma progression through SEMA4F

E Huang-Hobbs, YT Cheng, Y Ko, E Luna-Figueroa… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The tumour microenvironment plays an essential role in malignancy, and neurons have
emerged as a key component of the tumour microenvironment that promotes tumourigenesis …

Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis

Q Zeng, IP Michael, P Zhang, S Saghafinia, G Knott… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Metastasis—the disseminated growth of tumours in distant organs—underlies cancer
mortality. Breast-to-brain metastasis (B2BM) is a common and disruptive form of cancer and …