1. Childhood Medulloblastoma: An Overview
Yujin Suk, William D Gwynne, Ian Burns, Chitra Venugopal and Sheila K Singh
Part I: Molecular Assay-based Methods
2. Real-time PCR assays on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded medulloblastomas
Ratika Kunder and Neelam Vishwanath Shirsat
3. Validation of microRNA target genes using luciferase reporter assay and western blot analysis
Pooja Panwalkar, Atul Khire and Neelam Shirsat
4. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays on Medulloblastoma Cell Line DAOY
Tara Dobson and Jyothishmathi Swaminathan
5. Quantification of microRNAs in cells and tissues using stem-loop RT PCR and qPCR
Pooja Panwalkar, Atul Khire and Neelam Shirsat
6. Analysis of Microarray Data from Medulloblastoma tissue samples
Debojyoti Dhar and Gopala Kallapura
7. Advancement of single- cell sequencing in Medulloblastoma
Deepanshu Verma, Namyashree Nayak, Ashuthosh Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Neha Garg
Part II: Cellular Assays and Inhibitors for Medulloblastoma
8. Flow cytometry approaches to obtain medulloblastoma stem cells from bulk cultures
Praveen Kumar and Neha Garg
9. Drug Screening assays on Medulloblastoma Stem Cells using compound libraries
Ashutosh Singh and Neha Garg
10. 3D-on-2D: A physiologically-relevant and gel-free in vitro co-culture method to assay anti-metastatic agents
Abhinav Dey, Samuel Eisenberg, Rayna Birnbaum and David J Sharp
11. In vitro screening assay for activators of T- cell migration to solid tumors
Abhinav Dey and David Sharp
12. Impact of Nano preparation of phytoconstituents in Medulloblastoma
Priyanka Mishra and Y.B. Tripathi
13. Challenges and Recent Advances of novel chemical inhibitors in Medulloblastoma Therapy
Anand Maurya, Upendra Kumar Patel, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Virender Pratap Singh, Alka Agarwal
14. Role of ayurvedic plants as anti-cancer agents
Nikhil Pandey and Y.B. Tripathi
Part III: Animal Models in Medulloblastoma
15. In vivo tumorigenicity assays using subcutaneous and orthotopic xenografts in immunodeficient mice
Kedar Yogi, Rahul Thorat and Neelam Shirsat
16. Manufacture of an Oncolytic Measles Virus-Sensitive Immune-Competent Mouse Model of Medulloblastoma.
Sangeet Lal and Corey Raffel
Part IV: Patient data based approaches for Biomedical Research in Medulloblastoma
17. Preclinical Research Strategy Development for RNAi-based therapies in Oncology using patient-centred information from public databases of Human Protein Atlas and R2Genomics Platform
Abhinav Dey, Isabelle Balachandran, Ava Solis and David J Sharp
18. Magnetic resonance imaging in the contemporary management of medulloblastoma: current and emerging applications
Archya Dasgupta, Madan Maitre, Sona Pungavkar and Tejpal Gupta
19. Multidisciplinary Management of Medulloblastoma: Consensus, Challenges and Controversies
Abhishek Chatterjee, Madan Maitre, Archya Dasgupta, Epari Sridhar and Tejpal Gupta
