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3.3 <strong>Glioma</strong> Culture Systems Introduction<br />

Table 3.1: Summary <strong>of</strong> characteristics <strong>of</strong> NBE and serum-cultured glioblastoma<br />

cells. Adapted from Lee et al 2006.<br />

Proliferation Constant<br />

Clonogenicity,<br />

tumourigenicity<br />

Differentiation<br />

potential<br />

Telomerase activity Positive<br />

tumour histology<br />

Global gene expression<br />

NSC-related genes<br />

Genotype<br />

<strong>Glioma</strong> <strong>Neural</strong> <strong>Stem</strong> <strong>Cells</strong><br />

NBE-cultured Serum-cultured<br />

Limited growth, plateau, exponential<br />

growth<br />

Yes, regardless <strong>of</strong> passages Not at early passages<br />

Induce to become glial<br />

and neuronal lineages<br />

Extensive migration, phenocopy<br />

<strong>of</strong> primary human<br />

GBMs<br />

Similar to primary human<br />

GBMs<br />

Nestin, Sox2, CD133,<br />

Musashi and Bmi<br />

Same as parental tumour<br />

regardless <strong>of</strong> passages<br />

Do not respond to differentiation<br />

stimuli<br />

Negative initially, but became<br />

positive at late passages<br />

Fail to show infiltration like<br />

glioma lines<br />

Differentiation from primary<br />

tumours but similar<br />

to common glioma lines<br />

-<br />

Additional alterations not<br />

found in parental tumour<br />

The demonstration that the adult human brain maintains areas <strong>of</strong> radial<br />

glia populations that have been shown to give rise to NS cells within the<br />

SVZ, raised the prospect that these multipotent cells could be the alternate<br />

cells responsible for glioma expansion to the differentiated glia in the brain<br />

parenchyma [122,390,399]. As rare populations <strong>of</strong> stem cells are being discov-<br />

ered in different tissues, the cancer stem cell hypothesis reinforces its statement<br />

that cell lineage organization in tumours is hierarchical rather than stochastic<br />

and only the sub-population <strong>of</strong> cancer stem cells is responsible for the expan-<br />

sion <strong>of</strong> the tumour [123,458]. Therefore, in vitro expansion <strong>of</strong> the putative<br />

brain cancer stem cells as stable cell lines would provide a powerful model<br />

system to study the human disease by giving insights into the origin <strong>of</strong> tumour<br />

heterogeneity and enable further analysis <strong>of</strong> the self-renewal, commitment, and<br />

differentiation processes, which will hopefully lead to more targeted therapeu-<br />

tic strategies [404].<br />

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