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Glioblastoma Stem Cells: Driving Resilience through Chaos
Ist Teil von
Trends in Cancer, 2020-03, Vol.6 (3), p.223-235
Ort / Verlag
United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Glioblastoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous tumor in which glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) are at the apex of an entropic hierarchy and impart devastating therapy resistance. The high entropy of GSCs is driven by a permissive epigenetic landscape and a mutational landscape that revokes crucial cellular checkpoints. The GSC population encompasses a complex array of diverse microstates that are defined and maintained by a wide variety of attractors including the complex tumor ecosystem and therapeutic intervention. Constant dynamic transcriptional fluctuations result in a highly adaptable and heterogeneous entity primed for therapy evasion and survival. Analyzing the transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic landscapes of GSC dynamics in the context of a stochastically fluctuating tumor network will provide novel strategies to target resistant populations of GSCs in glioblastoma.