Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Establishment of human iPSC-based models for the study and targeting of glioma initiating cells

  • Ignacio Sancho-Martinez,
  • Emmanuel Nivet,
  • Yun Xia,
  • Tomoaki Hishida,
  • Aitor Aguirre,
  • Alejandro Ocampo,
  • Li Ma,
  • Robert Morey,
  • Marie N. Krause,
  • Andreas Zembrzycki,
  • Olaf Ansorge,
  • Eric Vazquez-Ferrer,
  • Ilir Dubova,
  • Pradeep Reddy,
  • David Lam,
  • Yuriko Hishida,
  • Min-Zu Wu,
  • Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban,
  • Dennis O’Leary,
  • Geoffrey M. Wahl,
  • Inder M. Verma,
  • Louise C. Laurent,
  • Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10743
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Glioma can originate from the transformation of neural progenitor cells into glioma initiating cells. Here, the authors demonstrate the use of induced pluripotent stem cells as a suitable model for generating neural progenitor cells, which can be subsequently transformed to glioma initiating cells that are able to the generate human glioma-like tumours in mice.