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- Title
Progress on Potential Strategies to Target Brain Tumor Stem Cells.
- Authors
Xing-gang Mao; Xiang Zhang; Hai-ning Zhen
- Abstract
Abstract The identification of brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs) leads to promising progress on brain tumor treatment. For some brain tumors, BTSCs are the driving force of tumor growth and the culprits that make tumor revive and resistant to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, it is specifically significant to eliminate BTSCs for treatment of brain tumors. There are considerable similarities between BTSCs and normal neural stem cells (NSCs), and diverse aspects of BTSCs have been studied to find potential targets that can be manipulated to specifically eradicate BTSCs without damaging normal NSCs, including their surface makers, surrounding niche, and aberrant signaling pathways. Many strategies have been designed to kill BTSCs, and some of them have reached, or are approaching, effective therapeutic results. Here, we will focus on advantages in the issue of BTSCs and emphasize on potential therapeutic strategies targeting BTSCs.
- Subjects
MEDICAL research; BRAIN tumors; NEURAL stem cells; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Cellular & Molecular Neurobiology, 2009, Vol 29, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
0272-4340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10571-008-9310-1