Project description:Glioblastoma stem-like cells or their differentiated progeny were co-cultured for 48h with normal human astrocytes to detect if invasion associated genes were influenced
Project description:Glioblastoma stem-like cells or their differentiated progeny were co-cultured for 48h with normal human astrocytes to detect if invasion associated genes were influenced Co-cultured samples and controls, a total 24 samples were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:consequences of astrocytes on GSCs, gene expression profiles generated from glioblastoma stem-like cells grown alone (mono-culture) and compared to those generated 48h after the initiation of co-culture with astrocytes We used microarrays show that astrocytes are capable to modify via a paracrine mechanism GSC gene expression and thus phenotype.
Project description:Brain metastases are highly resistant to chemotherapy. Brain metastases are surrounded and infiltrated by activated astrocytes. To examine the genes whose expression is associated with chemo-resistance of brain-metastasized cancer cells, gene expression data were collected and analyzed from breast cancer cells and lung cancer cells co-cultured with astrocytes. Fibroblast cells were used as control. Human lung cancer cell PC14 was co-cultured with mouse astrocytes or fibroblasts for two rounds. Total RNAs were extracted from co-cultured cells and hybridized to human microarray.
Project description:We compared by bulk RNA sequencing the transcriptomic profile of in vitro cultured DNGR-1-traced neural stem cells or their differentiated astrocytic progeny with similar cell fates generated from bonafide neural stem cells derived from the hippocampus.
Project description:<p>We used massively parallel, paired-end sequencing of expressed transcripts (RNA-seq) to detect novel gene fusions in short-term cultures of glioma stem-like cells freshly isolated from nine patients carrying primary glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The culture of primary GBM tumors under serum-free conditions selects cells that retain phenotypes and genotypes closely mirroring primary tumor profiles as compared to serum-cultured glioma cell lines that have largely lost their developmental identities.</p>
Project description:Although fetal bovine serum (FBS) induces the differentiation of cancer stem cells, the underlying mechanism by which this is accomplished has not been clarified. Whether reactive oxygen species affect the differentiation of cancer stem cells in solid tumors as they do in normal stem cells is not known. This study aimed to determine the role of reactive oxygen species in the FBS-induced differentiation of glioblastoma stem cells. We found that FBS activated the oxidative stress response system in glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs). The resulting differentiated cells showed tremendous increases in mitochondrial superoxide and oxygen consumption, accompanied by a loss in stem cell markers and a gain in differentiation markers. The antioxidant N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) inhibited the mitochondrial superoxide increase and prevented the glioblastoma stem cells from differentiating. It appears that FBS-induced cancer stem cell differentiation is caused by mitochondrial activation, which depends on increases in levels of mitochondrial superoxide. GSC11 cells were cultured in stem cell medium or differentiated medium for 1, 3, or 7 days in triplicate. Total RNA was extracted from 12 samples. Microarray experiment and data analysis were done at Dept. of Systems Biology, MDACC (Houston, USA)
