Editorial

W. K. Alfred Yung

Value of Meetings Is Far from Abstract
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 235; first published on May 12, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-023 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rapid Report

Hae Kyung Lee, Cunli Xiang, Simona Cazacu, Susan Finniss, Gila Kazimirsky, Nancy Lemke, Norman L. Lehman, Sandra A. Rempel, Tom Mikkelsen, and Chaya Brodie

GRP78 is overexpressed in glioblastomas and regulates glioma cell growth and apoptosis
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 236-243; first published on April 10, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Basic and Translational Investigations

Yoshifumi Mizobuchi, Kazuhito Matsuzaki, Kazuyuki Kuwayama, Keiko Kitazato, Hideo Mure, Teruyoshi Kageji, and Shinji Nagahiro

REIC/Dkk-3 induces cell death in human malignant glioma
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 244-253; first published on April 28, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rose Du, Claudia Petritsch, Kan Lu, Patty Liu, Anna Haller, Ruth Ganss, Hanqiu Song, Scott Vandenberg, and Gabriele Bergers

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 regulates vascular patterning and growth affecting tumor cell survival and invasion in GBM
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 254-264; first published on March 21, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bharat H. Joshi, Rada A. Puri, Pamela Leland, Frederick Varricchio, Ghanshyam Gupta, Mehmet Kocak, Richard J. Gilbertson, Raj K. Puri the U.S. Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium

Identification of interleukin-13 receptor 2 chain overexpression in situ in high-grade diffusely infiltrative pediatric brainstem glioma
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 265-274; first published on April 22, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2007-066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akira Nakamizo, Toshiyuko Amano, Wei Zhang, Xin-Qiao Zhang, Latha Ramdas, Ta-Jen Liu, B. Nebiyou Bekele, Tadahisa Shono, Tomio Sasaki, William F. Benedict, Raymond Sawaya, and Frederick F. Lang

Phosphorylation of Thr18 and Ser20 of p53 in Ad-p53–induced apoptosis
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 275-291; first published on April 28, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah Assadian, Antonio Aliaga, Rolando F. Del Maestro, Alan C. Evans, and Barry J. Bedell

FDG-PET imaging for the evaluation of antiglioma agents in a rat model
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 292-299; first published on April 22, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Investigations

Santosh Kesari, David Schiff, John W. Henson, Alona Muzikansky, Debra C. Gigas, Lisa Doherty, Tracy T. Batchelor, Janina A. Longtine, Keith L. Ligon, Susan Weaver, Andrea Laforme, Naren Ramakrishna, Peter McL. Black, Jan Drappatz, Abigail Ciampa, Judah Folkman, Mark Kieran, and Patrick Y. Wen

Phase II study of temozolomide, thalidomide, and celecoxib for newly diagnosed glioblastoma in adults
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 300-308; first published on April 10, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chunrong Yu, Bret B. Friday, Lin Yang, Peter Atadja, Dennis Wigle, Jann Sarkaria, and Alex A. Adjei

Mitochondrial Bax translocation partially mediates synergistic cytotoxicity between histone deacetylase inhibitors and proteasome inhibitors in glioma cells
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 309-319; first published on April 29, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2007-063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John H. Sampson, Gamal Akabani, Gerald E. Archer, Mitchel S. Berger, R. Edward Coleman, Allan H. Friedman, Henry S. Friedman, Kim Greer, James E. Herndon, II, Sandeep Kunwar, Roger E. McLendon, Alison Paolino, Neil A. Petry, James M. Provenzale, David A. Reardon, Terence Z. Wong, Michael R. Zalutsky, Ira Pastan, and Darell D. Bigner

Intracerebral infusion of an EGFR-targeted toxin in recurrent malignant brain tumors
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 320-329; first published on April 10, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David A. Reardon, Annick Desjardins, James J. Vredenburgh, Sith Sathornsumetee, Jeremy N. Rich, Jennifer A. Quinn, Theodore F. Lagattuta, Merrill J. Egorin, Sridharan Gururangan, Roger McLendon, James E. Herndon, II, Allan H. Friedman, August J. Salvado, and Henry S. Friedman

Safety and pharmacokinetics of dose-intensive imatinib mesylate plus temozolomide: Phase 1 trial in adults with malignant glioma
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 330-340; first published on March 21, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daphne A. Haas-Kogan, Anuradha Banerjee, Mehmet Kocak, Michael D. Prados, J. Russell Geyer, Maryam Fouladi, Tracy McKnight, Tina Young Poussaint, Alberto Broniscer, Susan M. Blaney, James M. Boyett, and Larry E. Kun

Phase I trial of tipifarnib in children with newly diagnosed intrinsic diffuse brainstem glioma
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 341-347; first published on April 16, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eva Knifed, Nir Lipsman, Warren Mason, and Mark Bernstein

Patients' perception of the informed consent process for neurooncology clinical trials
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 348-354; first published on April 3, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Phioanh (Leia) Nghiemphu, Richard M. Green, Whitney B. Pope, Albert Lai, and Timothy F. Cloughesy

Safety of anticoagulation use and bevacizumab in patients with glioma
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 355-360; first published on April 24, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Alba A. Brandes, Alicia Tosoni, Federica Spagnolli, Giampiero Frezza, Marco Leonardi, Fabio Calbucci, and Enrico Franceschi

Disease progression or pseudoprogression after concomitant radiochemotherapy treatment: Pitfalls in neurooncology
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 361-367; first published on April 9, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abstracts

Abstracts from the Thirteenth International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 369-517; first published on May 29, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-024 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oliver Bögler

SOCIETY NEWS
Neuro Oncol 2008; 10(3): 538; first published on April 2, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-018 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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