Brain tumor stem cells: phenotypic characterization and directed therapeutic approaches

Cell and Organ Transplantology. 2015; 3(2):177-183.
DOI: 10.22494/COT.V3I2.10

Brain tumor stem cells: phenotypic characterization and directed therapeutic approaches

Belska L. M., Lisyany M. I.
A. Romodanov State Institute of Neurosurgery NAMS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract
The review presents the current conceptions of the origin, methods of isolation and phenotypic characterization of the brain tumor stem cells. Phenotypic similarity in molecular markers between cancer and neural stem cells is shown. Therapeutic approaches of impact on the brain tumor stem cells and on the intracellular signaling pathways of cancer stem cells are described.

Key words: brain tumor stem cells, neural stem cells, malignant gliomas, CD133, nestin

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Belska LM, Lisyany MI. Brain tumor stem cells: phenotypic characterization and directed therapeutic approaches. Cell and Organ Transplantology. 2015; 3(2):177-183. doi: 10.22494/COT.V3I2.10

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