Effect of cancer therapy on neural stem cells: Implications for cognitive function

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 672-678

  Gibson, Erin ^a   Monje, Michelle ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; chemotherapy; cognition; neural stem cells; radiation

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOPAMINE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLATE METABOLISM; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 84868193462     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0b013e3283571a8e     Document Type: Review

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