Medulloblastomics revisited: biological and clinical insights from thousands of patients

V Hovestadt, O Ayrault, FJ Swartling… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumour primarily diagnosed during childhood, has
recently been the focus of intensive molecular profiling efforts, profoundly advancing our …

Cancer cell heterogeneity & plasticity in glioblastoma and brain tumors

A Lauko, A Lo, MS Ahluwalia, JD Lathia - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors remain one of the most difficult tumors to treat and, depending on the
diagnosis, have a poor prognosis. Of brain tumors, glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common …

EZH2 inhibition sensitizes MYC-high medulloblastoma cancers to PARP inhibition by regulating NUPR1-mediated DNA repair

J Yu, J Han, M Yu, H Rui, A Sun, H Li - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
MYC-driven medulloblastomas (MB) are highly aggressive pediatric brain tumors with poor
outcomes, and effective therapies remain limited despite intensive multimodal treatments …

Human cerebellar organoids with functional Purkinje cells

A Atamian, M Birtele, N Hosseini, T Nguyen, A Seth… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Research on human cerebellar development and disease has been hampered by the need
for a human cell-based system that recapitulates the human cerebellum's cellular diversity …

Human fetal cerebellar cell atlas informs medulloblastoma origin and oncogenesis

Z Luo, M **a, W Shi, C Zhao, J Wang, D **n, X Dong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant childhood brain tumour,, yet the origin
of the most aggressive subgroup-3 form remains elusive, impeding development of effective …

Single-cell transcriptomics in medulloblastoma reveals tumor-initiating progenitors and oncogenic cascades during tumorigenesis and relapse

L Zhang, X He, X Liu, F Zhang, LF Huang, AS Potter… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Progenitor heterogeneity and identities underlying tumor initiation and relapse in
medulloblastomas remain elusive. Utilizing single-cell transcriptomic analysis, we …

Development and developmental disorders of the human cerebellum

HJ ten Donkelaar, WFA den Dunnen… - … disorders of the human …, 2023 - Springer
The cerebellum is one of the best studied parts of the brain. The cerebellar cortex is
composed of four main types of neurons: granule cells, Purkinje cells, and two types of …

The HHIP-AS1 lncRNA promotes tumorigenicity through stabilization of dynein complex 1 in human SHH-driven tumors

J Bartl, M Zanini, F Bernardi, A Forget, L Blümel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most lncRNAs display species-specific expression patterns suggesting that animal models
of cancer may only incompletely recapitulate the regulatory crosstalk between lncRNAs and …

Primary cilia control translation and the cell cycle in medulloblastoma

YH Youn, S Hou, CC Wu, D Kawauchi… - Genes & …, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The primary cilium, a signaling organelle projecting from the surface of a cell, controls
cellular physiology and behavior. The presence or absence of primary cilia is a distinctive …

Recent Advances in Pediatric Medulloblastoma

K Jackson, RJ Packer - Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Review recent advances in the understanding of pediatric
medulloblastoma including etiology, biology, radiology, and management of pediatric …