Glioblastoma therapy: Past, present and future

E Obrador, P Moreno-Murciano… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GB) stands out as the most prevalent and lethal form of brain cancer.
Although great efforts have been made by clinicians and researchers, no significant …

Nanocarrier-based drug combination therapy for glioblastoma

M Zhao, D van Straten, MLD Broekman, V Préat… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current achievements in treating glioblastoma (GBM) patients are not sufficient because
many challenges exist, such as tumor heterogeneity, the blood brain barrier, glioma stem …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid-based nanoparticles to address the limitations of GBM therapy by overcoming the blood-brain barrier, targeting glioblastoma stem cells, and …

C Zhao, X Zhu, J Tan, C Mei, X Cai, F Kong - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor,
characterized by high heterogeneity, strong invasiveness, poor prognosis, and a low …

Glioblastoma and chemoresistance to alkylating agents: Involvement of apoptosis, autophagy, and unfolded protein response

S Hombach-Klonisch, M Mehrpour, S Shojaei… - Pharmacology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite advances in neurosurgical techniques and radio-/chemotherapy, the treatment of
brain tumors remains a challenge. This is particularly true for the most frequent and fatal …

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 …

Cancer stem cell hierarchy in glioblastoma multiforme

A Bradshaw, A Wickremsekera, ST Tan, L Peng… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive tumor that typically exhibits treatment failure
with high mortality rates, is associated with the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) within …

Glioblastoma: microenvironment and niche concept

D Schiffer, L Annovazzi, C Casalone, C Corona… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
The niche concept was originally developed to describe the location of normal neural stem
cells (NSCs) in the subependymal layer of the sub-ventricular zone. In this paper, its …

Glioblastoma cancer stem cell biology: Potential theranostic targets

F Sharifzad, S Ghavami, J Verdi, S Mardpour… - Drug Resistance …, 2019 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is among the most incurable cancers. GBMs survival rate
has not markedly improved, despite new radical surgery protocols, the introduction of new …

Anti-tumor effects and mechanisms of Astragalus membranaceus (AM) and its specific immunopotentiation: Status and prospect

S Li, Y Sun, J Huang, B Wang, Y Gong, Y Fang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
With cancer deaths increasing, the initiation, pathophysiology and curative management of
cancer is receiving increasing attention. Traditional therapies such as surgery and …

Advances in radiotherapy for glioblastoma

J Mann, R Ramakrishna, R Magge… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
External beam radiotherapy (RT) has long played a crucial role in the treatment of
glioblastoma. Over the past several decades, significant advances in RT treatment and …