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 …

Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroptosis in health and disease

C Berndt, H Alborzinia, VS Amen, S Ayton, U Barayeu… - Redox biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis is a pervasive non-apoptotic form of cell death highly relevant in various
degenerative diseases and malignancies. The hallmark of ferroptosis is uncontrolled and …

Recent advances in the developmental origin of neuroblastoma: an overview

M Ponzoni, T Bachetti, MV Corrias, C Brignole… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor that originates from neural crest-derived cells
undergoing a defective differentiation due to genomic and epigenetic impairments …

RNA velocity unraveled

G Gorin, M Fang, T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We perform a thorough analysis of RNA velocity methods, with a view towards
understanding the suitability of the various assumptions underlying popular …

Reversible transitions between noradrenergic and mesenchymal tumor identities define cell plasticity in neuroblastoma

C Thirant, A Peltier, S Durand, A Kramdi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Noradrenergic and mesenchymal identities have been characterized in neuroblastoma cell
lines according to their epigenetic landscapes and core regulatory circuitries. However, their …

Neuroblastoma arises in early fetal development and its evolutionary duration predicts outcome

V Körber, SA Stainczyk, R Kurilov, KO Henrich… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma, the most frequent solid tumor in infants, shows very diverse outcomes from
spontaneous regression to fatal disease. When these different tumors originate and how …

Neuroblastoma: When differentiation goes awry

M Zeineldin, AG Patel, MA Dyer - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Accumulated data
suggest that differentiation arrest of the neural-crest-derived sympathoadrenal lineage …

Transition to a mesenchymal state in neuroblastoma confers resistance to anti-GD2 antibody via reduced expression of ST8SIA1

NW Mabe, M Huang, GN Dalton, G Alexe, DA Schaefer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with anti-GD2 antibodies has advanced the treatment of children with high-
risk neuroblastoma, but nearly half of patients relapse, and little is known about mechanisms …

Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes

S Sengupta, S Das, AC Crespo, AM Cornel, AG Patel… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Apart from the anti-GD2 antibody, immunotherapy for neuroblastoma has had limited
success due to immune evasion mechanisms, coupled with an incomplete understanding of …