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ReviewNeurosurgical review2003

Genes and pathways driving glioblastomas in humans and murine disease models.

Adrian Merlo

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Review in Neurosurgical review, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. The G1359A-CNR1 gene polymorphism is associated to glioma in Spanish patients.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adrian MerloDepartments of Surgery and Research, University Hospitals, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. amerlo@uhbs.ch
University Hospital of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human malignant gliomas arise from neural progenitor cells and/or dedifferentiated astrocytes. By now, they are genetically so well characterized that several murine glioma models have emerged that faithfully reiterate the typical histological features of the disease. In experimental animals, only one or two elements of the growth factor/Ras, PI3K/PTEN/PKB, p53/ARF/HDM2, and p16/Rb/cyclinD/CDK4 pathways are targeted. In human gliomas, many additional genes and pathways are targeted due to a most severe mutator phenotype that leads to the accumulation of countless epigenetic and genetic alterations. Changes that convey a growth advantage are selected for, leading to overgrowth of precursor cell populations with increasingly malignant tumor cell clones. While murine models represent a powerful tool for elucidating the role of genetic pathways, mechanisms of response and resistance to new therapeutic agents might be fundamentally different due to the high degree of genomic instability in the human disease. In fact, little is known about the molecular causes of genomic instability involved in gliomas, except for the rare Turcot's syndrome, O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, and the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Ape-1. Novel approaches that selectively exploit fundamental metabolic differences between tumor and normal cells have to consider these fundamental differences between human disease and presently available, highly sophisticated animal models.

Indexed as

AnimalsCentral Nervous System NeoplasmsDisease Models, AnimalGenesGlioblastomaHumansMiceSignal Transduction

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PMID12783270
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