Mechanisms of disease: The role of stem cells in the biology and treatment of gliomas

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 393-404

  Dietrich, Jörg ^a   Imitola, Jaime ^a   Kesari, Santosh ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARF PROTEIN; BETA INTERFERON; CD133 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DOUBLECORTIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; HU PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NESTIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN S100B; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME PRODRUG THERAPY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 46949107691     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1132     Document Type: Review

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