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Differential localization of glioblastoma subtype: implications on glioblastoma pathogenesis

Tyler C. Steed, Jeffrey M. Treiber, Kunal Patel, Valya Ramakrishnan, Alexander Merk, Amanda R. Smith, Bob S. Carter, Anders M. Dale, Lionel M. L. Chow and Clark C. Chen _

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Oncotarget. 2016; 7:24899-24907. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.8551

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Abstract

Tyler C. Steed1, Jeffrey M. Treiber1, Kunal Patel1,2, Valya Ramakrishnan1, Alexander Merk3, Amanda R. Smith3, Bob S. Carter1, Anders M. Dale4,5, Lionel M. L. Chow3 and Clark C. Chen3

1 Center for Theoretical and Applied Neuro-Oncology, Division of Neurosurgery, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

2 Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

3 Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

4 Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

5 Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

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Clark C. Chen, email:

Keywords: glioblastoma, MR imaging, subventricular zone, subtypes, automatic tumor segmentation

Received: February 23, 2016 Accepted: March 26, 2016 Published: April 01, 2016

Abstract

Introduction: The subventricular zone (SVZ) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of glioblastoma. Whether molecular subtypes of glioblastoma arise from unique niches of the brain relative to the SVZ remains largely unknown. Here, we tested whether these subtypes of glioblastoma occupy distinct regions of the cerebrum and examined glioblastoma localization in relation to the SVZ.

Methods: Pre-operative MR images from 217 glioblastoma patients from The Cancer Imaging Archive were segmented automatically into contrast enhancing (CE) tumor volumes using Iterative Probabilistic Voxel Labeling (IPVL). Probabilistic maps of tumor location were generated for each subtype and distances were calculated from the centroid of CE tumor volumes to the SVZ. Glioblastomas that arose in a Genetically Modified Murine Model (GEMM) model were also analyzed with regard to SVZ distance and molecular subtype.

Results: Classical and mesenchymal glioblastomas were more diffusely distributed and located farther from the SVZ. In contrast, proneural and neural glioblastomas were more likely to be located in closer proximity to the SVZ. Moreover, in a GFAP-CreER; PtenloxP/loxP; Trp53loxP/loxP; Rb1loxP/loxP; Rbl1-/- GEMM model of glioblastoma where tumor can spontaneously arise in different regions of the cerebrum, tumors that arose near the SVZ were more likely to be of proneural subtype (p < 0.0001).

Conclusions: Glioblastoma subtypes occupy different regions of the brain and vary in proximity to the SVZ. These findings harbor implications pertaining to the pathogenesis of glioblastoma subtypes.


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