Brain Cancer Stem Cells in Adults and Children: Cell Biology and Therapeutic Implications

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 372-384

  Abou Antoun, Tamara J ^a   Hale, James S ^b   Lathia, Justin D ^b,c,d   Dombrowski, Stephen M ^b  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; Childhood brain tumors; Epigenetics; Glioblastoma; Microenvironment; Therapeutic implications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE; EPIGENETICS; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR REGRESSION; UPREGULATION; BRAIN TUMOR; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85016927928     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-017-0524-0     Document Type: Review

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