Cancer stem cells - the current status of an old concept: literature review and clinical approaches
As regards their morphology and biology, tumours consist of heterogeneous cell populations. The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis assumes that a tumour is hierarchically organized and not all of the cells are equally capable of generating descendants, similarly to normal tissue. The only cells being...
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BMC
2014-01-01
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Reeks: | Biological Research |
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Online toegang: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602014000100060&lng=en&tlng=en |