Even cancers want commitment: lineage identity and medulloblastoma formation

Cancer Cell. 2008 Aug 12;14(2):105-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2008.07.011.

Abstract

In this issue of Cancer Cell, Yang et al. (2008) and Schüller et al. (2008) show that Hedgehog activation in either multipotent neural stem cells or developmentally restricted progenitors causes only medulloblastomas to form. These data suggest that some stem cell-derived tumors must commit to a specific lineage in order to grow.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Lineage*
  • Cerebrum / pathology
  • Hedgehog Proteins / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Medulloblastoma / pathology*
  • Mice
  • Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Neurons / pathology
  • Patched Receptors
  • Receptors, Cell Surface / genetics
  • Stem Cells / pathology

Substances

  • Hedgehog Proteins
  • Patched Receptors
  • Receptors, Cell Surface