Regulation and signaling pathways in cancer stem cells: implications for targeted therapy for cancer

Z Zeng, M Fu, Y Hu, Y Wei, X Wei, M Luo - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), initially identified in leukemia in 1994, constitute a distinct subset
of tumor cells characterized by surface markers such as CD133, CD44, and ALDH. Their …

Advances in regenerative stem cell therapy in androgenic alopecia and hair loss: Wnt pathway, growth-factor, and mesenchymal stem cell signaling impact analysis …

P Gentile, S Garcovich - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of stem cells has been reported to improve hair regrowth in several therapeutic
strategies, including reversing the pathological mechanisms, that contribute to hair loss …

Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells

EJ Grow, RA Flynn, SL Chavez, NL Bayless… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are remnants of ancient retroviral infections, and comprise
nearly 8% of the human genome. The most recently acquired human ERV is HERVK (HML …

Reorganization of enhancer patterns in transition from naive to primed pluripotency

C Buecker, R Srinivasan, Z Wu, E Calo, D Acampora… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Naive and primed pluripotency is characterized by distinct signaling requirements,
transcriptomes, and developmental properties, but both cellular states share key …

Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human embryonic stem cells

LA Boyer, TI Lee, MF Cole, SE Johnstone, SS Levine… - cell, 2005 - cell.com
The transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG have essential roles in early
development and are required for the propagation of undifferentiated embryonic stem (ES) …

Functional expression cloning of Nanog, a pluripotency sustaining factor in embryonic stem cells

I Chambers, D Colby, M Robertson, J Nichols, S Lee… - Cell, 2003 - cell.com
Embryonic stem (ES) cells undergo extended proliferation while remaining poised for
multilineage differentiation. A unique network of transcription factors may characterize self …

The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network regulates pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells

YH Loh, Q Wu, JL Chew, VB Vega, W Zhang, X Chen… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Oct4 and Nanog are transcription factors required to maintain the pluripotency and self-
renewal of embryonic stem (ES) cells. Using the chromatin immunoprecipitation paired-end …

Cdx2 is required for correct cell fate specification and differentiation of trophectoderm in the mouse blastocyst

D Strumpf, CA Mao, Y Yamanaka, A Ralston… - 2005 - journals.biologists.com
Blastocyst formation marks the segregation of the first two cell lineages in the mammalian
preimplantation embryo: the inner cell mass (ICM) that will form the embryo proper and the …

BMP4 initiates human embryonic stem cell differentiation to trophoblast

RH Xu, X Chen, DS Li, R Li, GC Addicks… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
The excitement and controversy surrounding the potential role of human embryonic stem
(ES), cells in transplantation therapy have often overshadowed their potentially more …

Growth factors essential for self-renewal and expansion of mouse spermatogonial stem cells

H Kubota, MR Avarbock… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) self-renew and produce large numbers of committed
progenitors that are destined to differentiate into spermatozoa throughout life. However, the …