Cancer stem cells and tumor metastasis: First steps into uncharted territory

被引:146
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Dalerba, Piero [1 ]
Clarke, Michael F. [1 ]
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[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford Inst Stem Cell Biol & Regenerat Med, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
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10.1016/j.stem.2007.08.012
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Q813 [细胞工程];
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In several forms of human cancer, only a phenotypic subset of cancer cells, usually termed "cancer stem cells" (CSC), can initiate tumor growth when transplanted. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Hermann et al. (2007) analyze the relationship between CSC and tumor metastasis.
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