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 …

Targeting the Hippo pathway in cancer, fibrosis, wound healing and regenerative medicine

A Dey, X Varelas, KL Guan - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved signalling pathway with key roles in
organ development, epithelial homeostasis, tissue regeneration, wound healing and …

Lorlatinib with or without chemotherapy in ALK-driven refractory/relapsed neuroblastoma: phase 1 trial results

KC Goldsmith, JR Park, K Kayser, J Malvar, YY Chi… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas harbor ALK aberrations clinically resistant to crizotinib yet sensitive pre-
clinically to the third-generation ALK inhibitor lorlatinib. We conducted a first-in-child study …

Heterogeneity of neuroblastoma cell identity defined by transcriptional circuitries

V Boeva, C Louis-Brennetot, A Peltier, S Durand… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system, derived from
multipotent neural crest cells (NCCs). To define core regulatory circuitries (CRCs) controlling …

The clinical utility of integrative genomics in childhood cancer extends beyond targetable mutations

A Villani, S Davidson, N Kanwar, WW Lo, Y Li… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
We conducted integrative somatic–germline analyses by deeply sequencing 864 cancer-
associated genes, complete genomes and transcriptomes for 300 mostly previously treated …

A mechanistic classification of clinical phenotypes in neuroblastoma

S Ackermann, M Cartolano, B Hero, A Welte, Y Kahlert… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric tumor of the sympathetic nervous system. Its clinical course
ranges from spontaneous tumor regression to fatal progression. To investigate the molecular …

Neuroblastoma—a neural crest derived embryonal malignancy

JI Johnsen, C Dyberg, M Wickström - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuroblastoma is a neural crest derived malignancy of the peripheral nervous system and is
the most common and deadliest tumor of infancy. It is characterized by clinical heterogeneity …

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 …

Super enhancers define regulatory subtypes and cell identity in neuroblastoma

M Gartlgruber, AK Sharma, A Quintero, D Dreidax… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Half of the children diagnosed with neuroblastoma (NB) have high-risk disease,
disproportionately contributing to overall childhood cancer-related deaths. In addition to …

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 …