Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2012;746:216-25. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3146-6_17.
Malignant gliomas are characterized by its invasiveness and dissemination, resulting in frequent tumor recurrence after surgical resection and/or conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Various strategies of active and passive immunotherapy in developing stages have shown promise to increase patient survival time with little severe side effects. In recent years, glioma stem cells had been isolated from patient tumor specimens. Biochemical and biological characterization of these cancer initiating cells implicated their critical roles in cancer growth, malignancy and resistance to conventional treatments. In this chapter, we review recent research progress in targeting brain cancer using neural stem cells delivered cytotoxic factors and immune regulation factor, dendritic cell based vaccination, with special emphasis on targeting glioma stem cells. We present evidence supporting the notion that glioma stem cells may be preferred therapeutic targets not only for conventional therapies, but also for immunotherapies. Future progress in glioma stem cell research may fundamentally improve the prospect of malignant glioma treatments.
恶性脑胶质瘤的特点是侵袭性和扩散性,导致手术切除和/或常规化疗和放疗后经常复发。各种处于发展阶段的主动和被动免疫疗法策略显示出增加患者生存时间的希望,且副作用较小。近年来,已经从患者肿瘤标本中分离出神经胶质瘤干细胞。这些起始细胞的生化和生物学特征表明它们在癌症生长、恶性和对常规治疗的耐药性中起关键作用。在本章中,我们综述了使用神经干细胞传递细胞毒性因子和免疫调节因子、树突状细胞疫苗接种靶向脑肿瘤的最新研究进展,特别强调了靶向神经胶质瘤干细胞。我们提供的证据支持这样一种观点,即神经胶质瘤干细胞不仅可以作为常规治疗的首选治疗靶点,也可以作为免疫治疗的靶点。神经胶质瘤干细胞研究的未来进展可能从根本上改善恶性脑胶质瘤治疗的前景。
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