Deregulated proliferation and differentiation in brain tumors

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 225-254

  Swartling, Fredrik J ^a   Čančer, Matko ^a   Frantz, Aaron ^b,c   Weishaupt, Holger ^a   Persson, Anders I ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Sandler Neurosciences Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Glioma; Medulloblastoma Neurogenesis; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYC PROTEIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROFIBROMIN; RAS PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2;

BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RESISTANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIGENETICS; FOREBRAIN; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ANIMAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 84926659336     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-014-2046-y     Document Type: Review

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