Cancer stem cells: biological functions and therapeutically targeting

ME Ciurea, AM Georgescu, SO Purcaru… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
… different signalling in cancer stem cells requires in … cancer stem cells historical background
and to provide a brief review of the new therapeutic strategies for targeting cancer stem cells

Cancer stem cell functions in hepatocellular carcinoma and comprehensive therapeutic strategies

YC Liu, CT Yeh, KH Lin - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer stem cells (CSC) are a small subset of tumor cells with the capability to influence
self… A number of surface markers for liver cancer stem cell (LCSC) subpopulations (EpCAM, …

Understanding the cancer stem cell

S Bomken, K Fišer, O Heidenreich, J Vormoor - British journal of cancer, 2010 - nature.com
cancer stem cell (CSC). Although it was initially believed that only a rare population of stem
cells … malignancy, a recent work has shown that these cells may not be as rare as thought first…

SOX2 controls tumour initiation and cancer stem-cell functions in squamous-cell carcinoma

S Boumahdi, G Driessens, G Lapouge, S Rorive… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… SOX2 regulates tumour maintenance and cancer-cell functions in primary mouse skin tumours,
we induced Sox2 deletion in pre-existing tumour cells and performed microarray and qRT…

lncRNA involvement in cancer stem cell function and epithelial-mesenchymal transitions

EM McCabe, TP Rasmussen - Seminars in cancer biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… through cell division. There is growing recognition of the importance of cancer stem cells (…
, leading to the production of a spectrum of cancer cell-types that comprise the bulk tumor. …

Cancer stem cell signaling pathways

WH Matsui - Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… of cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs are a relatively rare population of cancer cells capable
of … understanding of the function of signaling pathways in both normal stem cells and CSCs. …

Hyaluronan-CD44 axis orchestrates cancer stem cell functions

SS Skandalis, TT Karalis, A Chatzopoulos… - Cellular signalling, 2019 - Elsevier
… regulating CSC functions Cancer stem cells (CSCs) differ from the normal stem cells in their
… repopulating a tumor after treatment resulting in cancer relapse [35,36]. Similarly to normal …

Cancer stem cells and their niche

H Iwasaki, T Suda - Cancer science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
cancer, in clinical practice. It has been suggested that tumor tissue contains a type of stem cell
referred to as a cancer stem cell… , thus proving that the cap cells function as a true stem cell

Evolution of the cancer stem cell model

A Kreso, JE Dick - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
… maintenance of normal tissue stem cell hierarchies. Similarly, … of self-renewing cancer stem
cells (CSCs) sustains the long-… a tumor cell with the TME influences the function of that cell, …

Wnt signaling in stem and cancer stem cells

JD Holland, A Klaus, AN Garratt… - Current opinion in cell …, 2013 - Elsevier
… biology of progenitor and adult stem cells in many organs like the … signaling also plays an
essential role in cancer stem cells [4]. … have been linked to stem cell functions, for instance R-…