Tumor microenvironment enriches the stemness features: the architectural event of therapy resistance and metastasis

P Nallasamy, RK Nimmakayala, S Parte, AC Are… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Cancer divergence has many facets other than being considered a genetic term. It is a
tremendous challenge to understand the metastasis and therapy response in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Brain malignancies: Glioblastoma and brain metastases

TT Lah, M Novak, B Breznik - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain, the major organ of the central nervous system controls and processes most of body
activities. Therefore, the most aggressive brain tumor–glioblastoma and metastases from …

Suppression of antitumor T cell immunity by the oncometabolite (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate

L Bunse, S Pusch, T Bunse, F Sahm, K Sanghvi… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The oncometabolite (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate (R-2-HG) produced by isocitrate
dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations promotes gliomagenesis via DNA and histone methylation …

Role of glioblastoma stem cells in cancer therapeutic resistance: A perspective on antineoplastic agents from natural sources and chemical derivatives

ALV Alves, INF Gomes, AC Carloni, MN Rosa… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2021 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the highest-grade form of glioma, as well as one of the most
aggressive types of cancer, exhibiting rapid cellular growth and highly invasive behavior …

Cancer stem cells and chemoresistance: The smartest survives the raid

J Zhao - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
Chemoresistant metastatic relapse of minimal residual disease plays a significant role for
poor prognosis of cancer. Growing evidence supports a critical role of cancer stem cell …

Retinoic acid receptors: from molecular mechanisms to cancer therapy

A Di Masi, L Leboffe, E De Marinis, F Pagano… - Molecular aspects of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Retinoic acid (RA), the major bioactive metabolite of retinol or vitamin A, induces a spectrum
of pleiotropic effects in cell growth and differentiation that are relevant for embryonic …

Protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in cancer, tumor promotion and tumor suppression

N Isakov - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The AGC family of serine/threonine kinases (PKA, PKG, PKC) includes more than 60
members that are critical regulators of numerous cellular functions, including cell cycle and …

Deciphering the complex role of thrombospondin-1 in glioblastoma development

T Daubon, C Léon, K Clarke, L Andrique… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We undertook a systematic study focused on the matricellular protein Thrombospondin-1
(THBS1) to uncover molecular mechanisms underlying the role of THBS1 in glioblastoma …

BCAT1 promotes cell proliferation through amino acid catabolism in gliomas carrying wild-type IDH1

M Tönjes, S Barbus, YJ Park, W Wang, M Schlotter… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Here we show that glioblastoma express high levels of branched-chain amino acid
transaminase 1 (BCAT1), the enzyme that initiates the catabolism of branched-chain amino …

Therapies targeting cancer stem cells: Current trends and future challenges

DL Dragu, LG Necula, C Bleotu… - World journal of …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traditional therapies against cancer, chemo-and radiotherapy, have multiple limitations that
lead to treatment failure and cancer recurrence. These limitations are related to systemic …