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ReviewActa neuropathologica communications2020

Cerebral organoids: emerging ex vivo humanoid models of glioblastoma.

Michail-Dimitrios Papaioannou, Kevin Sangster, Rifat Shahriar Sajid, Ugljesa Djuric, Phedias Diamandis

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Review in Acta neuropathologica communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Human Brain Organoids: Development and Applications.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michail-Dimitrios PapaioannouPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Kevin SangsterPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Rifat Shahriar SajidPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Ugljesa DjuricPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.
Phedias DiamandisPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada. p.diamandis@mail.utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-5291-9068

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of brain cancer that has seen only marginal improvements in its bleak survival outlook of 12-15 months over the last forty years. There is therefore an urgent need for the development of advanced drug screening platforms and systems that can better recapitulate glioblastoma's infiltrative biology, a process largely responsible for its relentless propensity for recurrence and progression. Recent advances in stem cell biology have allowed the generation of artificial tridimensional brain-like tissue termed cerebral organoids. In addition to their potential to model brain development, these reagents are providing much needed synthetic humanoid scaffolds to model glioblastoma's infiltrative capacity in a faithful and scalable manner. Here, we highlight and review the early breakthroughs in this growing field and discuss its potential future role for glioblastoma research.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaOrganoidsBiomedical ResearchCerebrumHumansModels, NeurologicalNeoplastic Stem CellsCancer discoveryCancer modellingCerebral organoidsGlioblastoma

Identifiers

PMID33261657
PMCPMC7706050

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