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ArticleScience advances2023

Human cerebrospinal fluid affects chemoradiotherapy sensitivities in tumor cells from patients with glioblastoma.

Brett W Stringer, Manam Inushi De Silva, Zarina Greenberg, Alejandra Noreña Puerta, Robert Adams, Bridget Milky, Michael Zabolocki, Mark van den Hurk, Lisa M Ebert, Christine Fairly Bishop and 6 more

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Brett W StringerSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4552-9736
Manam Inushi De SilvaSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5517-5903
Zarina GreenbergSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0103-8321
Alejandra Noreña PuertaSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0009-0001-9531-1180
Robert AdamsSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6254-0385
Bridget MilkySouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3851-9564
Michael ZabolockiSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Mark van den HurkSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9971-2547
Lisa M EbertCentre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8041-9666
Christine Fairly BishopFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0009-0009-1702-1928
Simon J ConnFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1376-4515
Ganessan KichenadasseFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9923-5149
Michael Z MichaelFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5954-7105
Rebecca J OrmsbyFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4256-7481
Santosh PoonooseFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9486-4904
Cedric BardySouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8321-0852
Flinders University · AUSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute · AUSouth Australia Pathology · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancers in the central nervous system resist therapies effective in other cancers, possibly due to the unique biochemistry of the human brain microenvironment composed of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). However, the impact of CSF on cancer cells and therapeutic efficacy is unknown. Here, we examined the effect of human CSF on glioblastoma (GBM) tumors from 25 patients. We found that CSF induces tumor cell plasticity and resistance to standard GBM treatments (temozolomide and irradiation). We identified nuclear protein 1 (NUPR1), a transcription factor hampering ferroptosis, as a mediator of therapeutic resistance in CSF. NUPR1 inhibition with a repurposed antipsychotic, trifluoperazine, enhanced the killing of GBM cells resistant to chemoradiation in CSF. The same chemo-effective doses of trifluoperazine were safe for human neurons and astrocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells. These findings reveal that chemoradiation efficacy decreases in human CSF and suggest that combining trifluoperazine with standard care may improve the survival of patients with GBM.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaCell Line, TumorChemoradiotherapyHumansTemozolomideTrifluoperazineTumor MicroenvironmentTemozolomideTrifluoperazine

Identifiers

PMID37878712
PMCPMC10599627
OpenAlexW4387949789

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