Kinetic characteristics of cerebral gliomas.
Kinetic characteristics of cerebral gliomas.
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脑胶质瘤的动力学特征。
DOI:
10.1093/neurosurgery/25.cn_suppl_1.326
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发表时间:
1978
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通讯作者:
C. Wilson
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作者:
T. Hoshino;C. Wilson
Every neurosurgeon knows that gliomas, with the exception of certain cerebellar and optic astrocytomas, exhibit progressive growth, and that malignant gliomas, such as glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma, and medulloblastoma, grow faster than well-differentiated (fibrillary astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, ependymoma, etc.) gliomas and prove fatal in a shorter period of time. Limited by available diagnostic procedures, in the past most surgeons have assumed that each glioblastoma cell might divide every 1 or 2 months, since such a tumor doubles its volume every 1 or 2 months after it has reached a detectable size (4, 11).Synthesis of radioactive nucleotides, especially 3H-thymidine at Brookhaven in 1957 (24), as well as the introduction of autoradiography for the detection of the subcellular location of labeled molecules, have led to a large number of experimental studies that have clarified various patterns of cell proliferation in normal and neoplastic tissues. Thymidine is the one nucleotide that is used exclusively to duplicate deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) during preparation for cell division. When tritium-labeled thymidine (3H-TdR) is made available to a population of cells, it is taken up by those cells synthesizing DNA, and subsequently those cells are readily identified by autoradiography (22). Sophisticated use of 3H-TdR combined with mathematical analyses has elucidated the cell and tissue kinetics of both static and expanding tissues, defined in terms of overall population growth.