Chronic viral infection and primary central nervous system malignancy.
Primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors cause significant morbidity and mortality in both adults and children. While some of the genetic and molecular mechanisms of neuro-oncogenesis are known, much less is known about possible epigenetic contributions to disease pathophysiology. Over the last several decades, chronic viral infections have been associated with a number of human malignancies. In primary CNS malignancies, two families of viruses, namely polyomavirus and herpesvirus, have been detected with varied frequencies in a number of pediatric and adult histological tumor subtypes. However, establishing a link between chronic viral infection and primary CNS malignancy has been an area of considerable controversy, due in part to variations in detection frequencies and methodologies used among researchers. Since a latent viral neurotropism can be seen with a variety of viruses and a widespread seropositivity exists among the population, it has been difficult to establish an association between viral infection and CNS malignancy based on epidemiology alone. While direct evidence of a role of viruses in neuro-oncogenesis in humans is lacking, a more plausible hypothesis of neuro-oncomodulation has been proposed. The overall goals of this review are to summarize the many human investigations that have studied viral infection in primary CNS tumors, discuss potential neuro-oncomodulatory mechanisms of viral-associated CNS disease and propose future research directions to establish a more firm association between chronic viral infections and primary CNS malignancies.
Saddawi-Konefka
Robert
R
School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Crawford
John R
JR
D000328:Adult; D016543:Central Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000821:virology*; D020805:Central Nervous System Viral Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology; D002648:Child; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human / Q000502:physiology; D018258:Herpesvirus 2, Human / Q000502:physiology; D015654:Herpesvirus 6, Human / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007577:JC Virus / Q000502:physiology; D027601:Polyomavirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D019349:Roseolovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology
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