Abstract:
:The majority of embryonal tumors or childhood blastomas derive from pluripotent progenitors or fetal stem cells that acquire cancer stem cell (CSC) properties: multipotency, self-renewal ability, metastatic potential, chemoresistance, more pronounced levels of drug transporters, enhanced DNA-damage repair mechanisms, and a quiescent state. Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered a neuroendocrine tumor and is the most common extracranial neoplasm in children. NB pathogenesis has frequently been associated with epigenetic dysregulation and a failure to implement a differentiation program. The origin, characteristics, and isolation of the CSC subpopulation in NB are still incompletely understood, despite the evidence that this cell subset contributes to disease recurrence and acquired resistance to standard therapies. Here, we summarize the literature regarding the isolation and characterization of CSCs in NB over the past decades, from the early recognition of the expression of stem cell factor (SCF) or its receptor c-KIT to more recent studies identifying the ability of G-CSF and STAT3 to support stem cell-like properties in NB cells. Additionally, we review the morphological variants of NB tumors whose recent epigenetic analyses have shed light on the tumor heterogeneity so common in NB. NB-derived mesenchymal stem cells have recently been isolated from primary tumors of NB patients and associated with a pro-tumorigenic role in the tumor microenvironment, enabling immune escape by tumors, and contributing to their invasive and metastatic capabilities. In particular, we will focus on epigenetic reprogramming in the CSC subpopulation in NB and strategies to target CSCs in NB.
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Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)journal_title
Frontiers in endocrinologyauthors
Veschi V,Verona F,Thiele CJdoi
10.3389/fendo.2019.00782subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-19 00:00:00pages
782issn
1664-2392journal_volume
10pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Neurons and pancreatic endocrine cells have a common physiology and express a similar toolkit of transcription factors during development. To explain these common features, it has been hypothesized that pancreatic cells most likely co-opted a pre-existing gene regulatory program from ancestral neurons. To test this id...
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更新日期:2018-11-02 00:00:00
abstract::[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00025.]. ...
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pub_type: 杂志文章,已发布勘误
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2019.00818
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2019.00870
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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doi:10.3389/fendo.2016.00068
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2013.00159
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2011.00114
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2016.00016
更新日期:2016-02-25 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2018.00224
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00477
更新日期:2020-09-08 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2014.00094
更新日期:2014-06-23 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2019-02-08 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type:
doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00553
更新日期:2020-08-19 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2014.00218
更新日期:2014-12-18 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fendo.2018.00455
更新日期:2018-08-21 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fendo.2016.00144
更新日期:2016-11-14 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2015-07-02 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2017-05-22 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in endocrinology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2014.00050
更新日期:2014-04-10 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2018.00011
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2019-06-07 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00401
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2019-03-29 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-02-13 00:00:00