PMID: 9440020Jan 24, 1998Paper

Growth factors, glia and gliomas

Journal of Neuro-oncology
Mark Noble, Margot Mayer-Proschel

Abstract

The abilities of growth factors to cause normal cells to express the properties associated with transformed cells is discussed in specific reference to the oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cell. In the O-2A lineage, it has been possible to use growth factors and other defined molecules to induce or promote in normal cells all of the main properties of tumor cells, these being continued cell division in the absence of differentiation, more subtle modulations of self-renewal probabilities, promotion of cell migration and inhibition of programmed cell death. In addition to our studies on primary cells, our application to the growth of human tumor specimens of techniques utilized to study primary glial progenitor cells has allowed us to isolate a human glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)-derived population that expresses many properties otherwise uniquely expressed by oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cells. Hu-O-2A/Gb1 (for Human O-2A lineage Glioblastoma number 1) cells responded to similar mitogens and differentiation modulators as rodent O-2A progenitors, and generated cells with features of precursor cells, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes. Moreover, 1H-NMR analysis of amino acid composition demonst...Continue Reading

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