A Neurocentric Perspective on Glioma Invasion

Overview

Journal Nat Rev Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2014 Jun 21

PMID 24946761

Citations 400

Authors

Vishnu Anand Cuddapah

Stefanie Robel

Stacey Watkins

Harald Sontheimer

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Abstract

Malignant gliomas are devastating tumours that frequently kill patients within 1 year of diagnosis. The major obstacle to a cure is diffuse invasion, which enables tumours to escape complete surgical resection and chemo- and radiation therapy. Gliomas use the same tortuous extracellular routes of migration that are travelled by immature neurons and stem cells, frequently using blood vessels as guides. They repurpose ion channels to dynamically adjust their cell volume to accommodate to narrow spaces and breach the blood-brain barrier through disruption of astrocytic endfeet, which envelop blood vessels. The unique biology of glioma invasion provides hitherto unexplored brain-specific therapeutic targets for this devastating disease.

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