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Notas do Editor
Do the GBM really suffer from some blood supply deprivation?? -GBM tolerate quite well hypoxia (many HIF inducible genes) GBM cells can migrate far away (gliomatosis) The described angiogenesis-independent tumor growth and the uncoupling of invasion and angiogenesis, represented by the stemlike cancer cells and the cells derived from them, respectively, point at two completely independent mechanisms that drive tumor progression. An alternative mechanism for obtaining essential nutrients may be that the malignant cells are sustained by the preexisting vasculature of the host tissue, as they invade the surrounding parenchyma. -
The mathematical decomposition of the diffusion tensor into its isotropic (p) and anisotropic (q) components allows to determine tissue diffusion 'signatures', that demonstrate different aspects of tumour behaviour. These maps allow better describe diffusion characteristics at the level of tumor core and peritumoral white matter. By extracting and quantifying the information in the diffusion tensor, various isotropic and anisotropic indices can be calculated. From the mathematical decomposition of the diffusion tensor it is possible to obtain two maps: isotropic (p) and anisotropic (q)