Example sentences for: glioblastoma

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  • The U87 glioblastoma tumor cell line has been described [ 57 ] and was obtained from Webster K. Cavenee (UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA).

  • Two different cell lines were studied: A549, derived from human lung adenocarcinoma, and U118, derived from human brain glioblastoma.

  • Over-expression of PDGFR has been reported in a variety of human tumors including glioma and glioblastoma, pancreatic and colonic cancers, breast, bone and ovarian tumors [ 11 ] . In normal cells, expression of PDGFR can be seen in the fibroblasts and the smooth muscle cells in the lung and airway [ 12 ] . There is so far to our knowledge no report to link the expression of PDGFR to lung cancer.

  • For example, mouse embryonal stem (ES) cells with homozygous deletion of the PTEN gene exhibit increased anchorage-independent growth as compared to normal ES cells [ 12 ] . Similarly, transfer of a wild type PTEN gene into anchorage-independent human glioblastoma cells (which lack functional PTEN), results in their greatly reduced ability to form colonies in soft agar [ 4 5 6 ] . The interpretation of these latter findings, however, is complicated by the strong anti-proliferative effects of PTEN even in monolayer culture, which is consistently observed when the wild type version of this gene is introduced into PTEN-negative tumor cells [ 4 6 7 8 9 10 18 33 ] . Moreover, in human glioma and breast cancer cell lines, the ectopic expression of wild type PTEN leads to anoikis, which is apoptosis initiated by the disruption of cell matrix-interactions [ 23 34 35 36 ] .

  • Retroviral expression of the kinase inactive IGF-I Receptor inhibits growth of U87 glioblastoma cells in-vivo


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