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Characterization of a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cell line: implications for future investigations and treatment

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Neuro-Oncology, September 2012
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Title
Characterization of a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cell line: implications for future investigations and treatment
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Journal of Neuro-Oncology, September 2012
DOI 10.1007/s11060-012-0973-6
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Authors

Rintaro Hashizume, Ivan Smirnov, Sharon Liu, Joanna J. Phillips, Jeanette Hyer, Tracy R. McKnight, Michael Wendland, Michael Prados, Anu Banerjee, Theodore Nicolaides, Sabine Mueller, Charles D. James, Nalin Gupta

Abstract

Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas arise almost exclusively in children, and despite advances in treatment, the majority of patients die within 2 years after initial diagnosis. Because of their infiltrative nature and anatomic location in an eloquent area of the brain, most pontine gliomas are treated without a surgical biopsy. The corresponding lack of tissue samples has resulted in a limited understanding of the underlying genetic and molecular biologic abnormalities associated with pontine gliomas, and is a substantial obstacle for the preclinical testing of targeted therapeutic agents for these tumors. We have established a human glioma cell line that originated from surgical biopsy performed on a patient with a pontine glioma. To insure sustainable in vitro propagation, tumor cells were modified with hTERT (human telomerase ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase), and with a luciferase reporter to enable non-invasive bioluminescence imaging. The hTERT modified cells are tumorigenic in athymic rodents, and produce brainstem tumors that recapitulate the infiltrative growth of brainstem gliomas in patients.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 79 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 15%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 6 7%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 20 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 14%
Neuroscience 8 10%
Engineering 3 4%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 22 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2022.
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#3,630,632
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Outputs from Journal of Neuro-Oncology
#269
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#24,307
of 189,707 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Neuro-Oncology
#3
of 20 outputs
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