Editorial

C. David James and Webster K. Cavenee

Stem Cells for Treating Glioblastoma: How Close to Reality?
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 101; first published on February 23, 2009 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2009-016 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Basic and Translational Investigations

Mahmud Uzzaman, Gordon Keller, and Isabelle M. Germano

In vivo gene delivery by embryonic-stem-cell–derived astrocytes for malignant gliomas
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 102-108; first published on August 1, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire Marie-Elisabeth Sauvageot, Jessica Leigh Weatherbee, Santosh Kesari, Susan Elizabeth Winters, Jessica Barnes, Jamie Dellagatta, Naren Raj Ramakrishna, Charles Dean Stiles, Andrew Li-Jen Kung, Mark W. Kieran, and Patrick Yung Chih Wen

Efficacy of the HSP90 inhibitor 17-AAG in human glioma cell lines and tumorigenic glioma stem cells
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 109-121; first published on August 5, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Markus D. Siegelin, David E. Reuss, Antje Habel, Abdelhaq Rami, and Andreas von Deimling

Quercetin promotes degradation of survivin and thereby enhances death-receptor–mediated apoptosis in glioma cells
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 122-131; first published on October 29, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-085 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazuyuki Kuwayama, Kazuhito Matsuzaki, Yoshihumi Mizobuchi, Hideo Mure, Keiko T. Kitazato, Teruyoshi Kageji, Mitsuyoshi Nakao, and Shinji Nagahiro

Promyelocytic leukemia protein induces apoptosis due to caspase-8 activation via the repression of NFB activation in glioblastoma
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 132-141; first published on September 23, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristoph Jahnke, Leslie L. Muldoon, Csanad G. Varallyay, Seth J. Lewin, Dale F. Kraemer, and Edward A. Neuwelt

Bevacizumab and carboplatin increase survival and asymptomatic tumor volume in a glioma model
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 142-150; first published on September 4, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomoo Inoue, Yoji Yamashita, Masamichi Nishihara, Shinichiro Sugiyama, Yukihiko Sonoda, Toshihiro Kumabe, Masayuki Yokoyama, and Teiji Tominaga

Therapeutic efficacy of a polymeric micellar doxorubicin infused by convection-enhanced delivery against intracranial 9L brain tumor models
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 151-157; first published on August 28, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jens Hoffmann, Iduna Fichtner, Margit Lemm, Philip Lienau, Holger Hess-Stumpp, Andrea Rotgeri, Birte Hofmann, and Ulrich Klar

Sagopilone crosses the blood–brain barrier in vivo to inhibit brain tumor growth and metastases
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 158-166; first published on September 9, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Investigations

Michael A. Vogelbaum, Brian Berkey, David Peereboom, David Macdonald, Caterina Giannini, John H. Suh, Robert Jenkins, James Herman, Paul Brown, Deborah T. Blumenthal, Christopher Biggs, Christopher Schultz, and Minesh Mehta

Phase II trial of preirradiation and concurrent temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic oligodendrogliomas and mixed anaplastic oligoastrocytomas: RTOG BR0131
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 167-175; first published on September 8, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johan Pallud, Laurent Capelle, Luc Taillandier, Denys Fontaine, Emmanuel Mandonnet, Rémy Guillevin, Luc Bauchet, Philippe Peruzzi, Florence Laigle-Donadey, Michèle Kujas, Jacques Guyotat, Marie-Hélène Baron, Karima Mokhtari, and Hugues Duffau

Prognostic significance of imaging contrast enhancement for WHO grade II gliomas
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 176-182; first published on August 12, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin R. Kozak, Anand Mahadevan, and John S. Moody

Adult gliosarcoma: epidemiology, natural history, and factors associated with outcome
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 183-191; first published on September 9, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annalisa Pezzolo, Elena Rossi, Stefania Gimelli, Federica Parodi, Francesca Negri, Massimo Conte, Angela Pistorio, Angela Sementa, Vito Pistoia, Orsetta Zuffardi, and Claudio Gambini

Presence of 1q gain and absence of 7p gain are new predictors of local or metastatic relapse in localized resectable neuroblastoma
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 192-200; first published on October 15, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-086 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Rutkowski, Nicolas Ulrich Gerber, Katja von Hoff, Astrid Gnekow, Udo Bode, Norbert Graf, Frank Berthold, Günter Henze, Johannes E.A. Wolff, Monika Warmuth-Metz, Niels Soerensen, Angela Emser, Holger Ottensmeier, Frank Deinlein, Paul-Gerhardt Schlegel, Rolf-Dieter Kortmann, Torsten Pietsch, Joachim Kuehl the German Pediatric Brain Tumor Study Group

Treatment of early childhood medulloblastoma by postoperative chemotherapy and deferred radiotherapy
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 201-210; first published on September 25, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jay-Jiguang Zhu, Elizabeth R. Gerstner, David A. Engler, Maciej M. Mrugala, Whitney Nugent, Kristin Nierenberg, Fred H. Hochberg, Rebecca A. Betensky, and Tracy T. Batchelor

High-dose methotrexate for elderly patients with primary CNS lymphoma
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 211-215; first published on August 29, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abstracts from the 17th International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy June 9-12, 2008 Tokyo, Japan
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 217-235; DOI:10.1215/15228517-2008-098 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rafael Roesler, Nadja Schröder, and Gilberto Schwartsmann

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 236-237; first published on November 25, 2008 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2008-100 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher E. Pelloski

SOCIETY NEWS
Neuro Oncol 2009; 11(2): 238-239; first published on January 30, 2009 as DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2009-009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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