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SUBMITTER: Garzia L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346737 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garzia Livia L Kijima Noriyuki N Morrissy A Sorana AS De Antonellis Pasqualino P Guerreiro-Stucklin Ana A Holgado Borja L BL Wu Xiaochong X Wang Xin X Parsons Michael M Zayne Kory K Manno Alex A Kuzan-Fischer Claudia C Nor Carolina C Donovan Laura K LK Liu Jessica J Qin Lei L Garancher Alexandra A Liu Kun-Wei KW Mansouri Sheila S Luu Betty B Thompson Yuan Yao YY Ramaswamy Vijay V Peacock John J Farooq Hamza H Skowron Patryk P Shih David J H DJH Li Angela A Ensan Sherine S Robbins Clinton S CS Cybulsky Myron M Mitra Siddhartha S Ma Yussanne Y Moore Richard R Mungall Andy A Cho Yoon-Jae YJ Weiss William A WA Chan Jennifer A JA Hawkins Cynthia E CE Massimino Maura M Jabado Nada N Zapotocky Michal M Sumerauer David D Bouffet Eric E Dirks Peter P Tabori Uri U Sorensen Poul H B PHB Brastianos Priscilla K PK Aldape Kenneth K Jones Steven J M SJM Marra Marco A MA Woodgett James R JR Wechsler-Reya Robert J RJ Fults Daniel W DW Taylor Michael D MD
Cell 20180201 5
While the preponderance of morbidity and mortality in medulloblastoma patients are due to metastatic disease, most research focuses on the primary tumor due to a dearth of metastatic tissue samples and model systems. Medulloblastoma metastases are found almost exclusively on the leptomeningeal surface of the brain and spinal cord; dissemination is therefore thought to occur through shedding of primary tumor cells into the cerebrospinal fluid followed by distal re-implantation on the leptomeninge ...[more]