Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Glioblastoma Stem Cells
Glioblastoma is the most common, aggressive and lethal brain tumor in adults. However, current therapeutic protocols have low success rates and average overall survival is less than 15 months. The resistance to therapy is largely a result of the remarkable cellular and phenotypical
heterogeneity that characterizes this type of tumor. The discovery of a subpopulation of cells exhibiting stem cell properties within the tumor bulk has profound implications for therapy as increasing evidence indicates that these cells, glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs), are responsible for
the origin, maintenance and recurrence of the glioblastomas. These findings highlight the need to characterize GSCs in order to find novel treatments directly targeted specifically against them. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge regarding this issue, including some recent
and relevant patents.
Keywords: Glioblastoma; glioblastoma stem cells; molecular target; therapy
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2013
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