Perspectives on brain tumor formation involving macrophages, glia, and neural stem cells.

Abstract:

:The incidence of brain tumors is rising in children and the elderly, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying brain tumor initiation and progression. In the 1940s, Zimmerman and coworkers exploited the tumor-promoting potential of polycyclic hydrocarbons to produce brain tumor models in adult mice that simulated the neuropathology of human brain tumors. Based on these early findings and on recent neurobiological studies of stem cells, I propose that crystalline carcinogenic pellets surgically implanted in the central nervous system establish over time a microenvironment that fosters proliferation and genetic damage in neural stem cells and their progenitors. Moreover, activated glia (microglia and astrocytes) and recruited macrophages mediate these processes. Gradually local tissue fields, which normally restrict stem cell proliferation, become disorganized, leading to further stem cell proliferation, genetic damage, and eventual neoplasia. Depending on age, location, and the state of glial/macrophage activation, the resulting brain tumor may resemble transformed neural progenitors aborted in more or less differentiated states. This hypothesis integrates the general mechanisms by which neural stem cells, glia, and macrophages orchestrate the initiation and progression of brain cancer. Also discussed are implications of these concepts for the diagnosis and therapy of human brain tumors.

journal_name

Perspect Biol Med

authors

Seyfried TN

doi

10.1353/pbm.2001.0035

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-04-01 00:00:00

pages

263-82

issue

2

eissn

0031-5982

issn

1529-8795

journal_volume

44

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