Pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic pathway: A tumour deriving from radial glia cells with a specific gene signature

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1523-1535

  Tchoghandjian, Aurlie ^a   Fernandez, Carla ^a,b   Colin, Carole ^a   El Ayachi, Ikbale ^a   Voutsinos Porche, Brigitte ^a   Fina, Frdric ^c   Scavarda, Didier ^b   Piercecchi Marti, Marie Dominique ^b   Intagliata, Dominique ^a   Ouafik, L'Houcine ^a   Fraslon Vanhulle, Caroline ^d   Figarella Branger, Dominique ^a,b  

^a University of the Mediterranean Aix Marseille II   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^d SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Hypothalamochiasmatic astrocytomas; Invasion; Molecular profile; Proliferation; Radial glia

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; VIMENTIN; DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC CHIASM; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STEM CELL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM; ASTROCYTE; CANCER STEM CELL; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLIA; INFANT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; NEUROGLIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UP-REGULATION; VIMENTIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649400757     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp048     Document Type: Article

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