Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 979: Hypoxia Inducible Factors ’ Signaling in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas: Role, Modelization and Innovative Targeted Approaches

Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 979: Hypoxia Inducible Factors’ Signaling in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas: Role, Modelization and Innovative Targeted Approaches Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040979 Authors: Quentin Fuchs Marina Pierrevelcin Melissa Messe Benoit Lhermitte Anne-Florence Blandin Christophe Papin Andres Coca Monique Dontenwill Natacha Entz-Werlé The brain tumor microenvironment has recently become a major challenge in all pediatric cancers, but especially in brain tumors like high-grade gliomas. Hypoxia is one of the extrinsic tumor features that interacts with tumor cells, but also with the blood–brain barrier and all normal brain cells. It is the result of a dramatic proliferation and expansion of tumor cells that deprive the tissues of oxygen inflow. However, cancer cells, especially tumor stem cells, can endure extreme hypoxic conditions by rescheduling various genes’ expression involved in cell proliferation, metabolism and angiogenesis and thus, promote tumor expansion, therapeutic resistance and metabolic adaptation. This cellular adaptation implies Hypoxia-Inducible Factors (HIF), namely HIF-1α and HIF-2α. In pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs), several questions remained open on hypoxia-specific role in normal brain during gliomagenesis and pHGG progression, as well how to model it in preclinical studies and how it might be counteracted with targeted therapies. Therefore, this re...
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