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Identification of a subpopulation of cells with cancer stem cell properties in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Jan 2007
Prince M E, Sivanandan R, Kaczorowski A, Wolf G T, Kaplan M J, Dalerba P, Weissman I L, Clarke M F, Ailles L E
Abstract excerpt
Like many epithelial tumors, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) contains a heterogeneous population of cancer cells. We developed an immunodeficient mouse model to test the tumorigenic potential of different populations of cancer cells derived from primary, unmanipulated human HNSCC samples. We show that a minority population of CD44(+) cancer cells, which typically comprise <10% of the cells in a...
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