Program in Cancer Neuroscience at Stanford
Publications
Primary Research Articles
Glioma neuroscience
Venkatesh HS, Johung T, Caretti V, Noll A, Tang Y, Nagaraja S, Gibson EM, Mount CW, Pollepalli J, Mitra SS, Woo PJ, Malenka RM, Vogel H, Bredel M, Mallick P, Monje M (2015) Neuronal activity promotes glioma growth through neuroligin-3 secretion, Cell, 161(4):803-16
Venkatesh HS, Tam LT, Woo PJ, Nagaraja S, Gillespe SM, Lennon J, Ni J, Duveau DY, Morris PJ, Zhao JJ, Thomas CJ, Monje M (2017) Targeting neuronal activity-regulated neuroligin-3 dependency for high-grade glioma, Nature 549: 533-537
Nagaraja S, Vitanza N, Woo PJ, Taylor KR, Liu F, Zhang L, Li M, Meng W, Ponnuswami A, Sun W, Ma J, Hulleman E, Swigut T, Wysocka J, Tang Y, Monje M (2017) Transcriptional dependencies in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, Cancer Cell, 31(5):635-652
Venkatesh HS, Morishita W, Geraghty AC, Silverbush D, Gillespie SM, Arzt M, Tam LT, Espenel C, Ponnuswami A, Ni L, Woo PJ, Taylor KR, Agarwal A, Regev A, Brang D, Vogel H, Hervey-Jumper S, Bergles DE, Suvà ML, Malenka RC and Monje M (2019) Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits Nature 573: 539-545
Pan Y, Hysinger JD, Barron T, Schindler NF, Cobb O, Guo X, Yalcin B, Anastasaki C, Mulinyawe SB, Ponnuswami A, Schaeffer S, Ma Y, Chang K-C, Toonen JA, Lennon JJ, Gibson EM, Huguenard JR, Liau LM, Goldberg J, Monje M*, Gutmann DH* (2021) NF1 mutation drives neuronal activity-dependent optic glioma initiation. Nature. 594(7862):277-282
Cho KF, Gillespie SM, Kalogriopoulos NA, Quezada MA, Jacko M, Monje M, Ting AY. A light-gated transcriptional recorder for detecting cell-cell contacts. Elife. 2022 March 21;11:e70881
Taylor, KR, Barron T, Hui A, Spitzer A, Yalcin B, Ivec AE, Geraghty AC, Hartmann, Arzt M, Gillespie S, Ni L, Zhang H, Venkatesh HS, Du P, Mancusi R, Chau IJ, Ponnuswami A, Aziz-Bose R, Tirosh I, Suva ML, Monje M (2023) Glioma synapses recruit mechanisms of adaptive plasticity, Nature 623, 366–374
Lung Cancer Neuroscience
Yang D, Qu F, Cai H, Chuang CH, Lim JS, Jahchan N, Grüner BM, S Kuo C, Kong C, Oudin MJ, Winslow MM, Sage J. Axon-like protrusions promote small cell lung cancer migration and metastasis. Elife. 2019 Dec 13;8:e50616. doi: 10.7554/eLife.50616. PMID: 31833833
Cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment
Gibson E.M., Nagaraja S., Ocampo A, Tam L.T., Wood L.S., Pallegar P.N., Greene J.J., Geraghty A.C., Goldstein A.K., Ni. L., Woo P.J., Barres B.A., Liddelow S., Vogel H., Monje M. (2019) Methotrexate chemotherapy induces persistent tri-glial dysregulation that underlies chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment, Cell, 176 (1), 43-55. NIHMS# 1510842
Geraghty A.C., Gibson E.M., Reem G., Greene J., Ocampo A., Goldstein A.K., Ni L., Yang T., Marton R.M., Pasca S.P., Greenberg M.E., Longo F.M., Monje M. (2019) Loss of adaptive myelination contributes to methotrexate chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment. Neuron, 103(2):250-265
Review Articles
Mancusi R. and Monje M. The Neuroscience of Cancer. Nature. 2023 618(7965):467-479
Taylor KR. and Monje M. Neuron-oligodendroglial interactions in health and malignant disease. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2023 24(12):733-746
Winkler F, Venkatesha HS, Amit M, Batchelor T, Demir IJ, Deneen B, Gutmann DH, Hervey-Jumper S, Kuner T, Mabbot D, Platten M, Rolls A, Soan EK, Want TC, Wich W, Venkataramani V, Monje M. (2023) Cancer neuroscience: State of the field, emerging directions. Cell 186(8) 1689-1707. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.002
Hanaham D, Monje M. (2023) Cancer hallmarks intersect with neuroscience in the tumor microenvironment. Cancer Cell. 44(3) 573-580. doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2023.02.012
Keough, M.B., and Monje, M. (2022). Neural Signaling in Cancer. Annu Rev Neurosci.
Gibson EM and Monje M (2021) Microglia in cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment, Trends in Neurosciences, 44(6):441-451. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.02.003
Monje M et al. (2020) Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience, Cell, 181(2):219-222
Gillespie S.M. and Monje M (2020) Neural Regulation of Cancer, Annual Review of Cancer Biology 4:371-390.
Monje M. (2020) Synaptic communication in brain cancer. Cancer Res. 80(14):2979-2982
Gibson EM and Monje M (2019) Emerging mechanistic underpinnings and therapeutic targets for chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment. Curr Opin Oncol. 31(6):531-539