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Spontaneous Transformation of Human Adult Nontumorigenic Stem Cells to Cancer Stem Cells Is Driven by Genomic Instability in a Human Model of Glioblastoma
1 Mar 2007
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The presence of a CD133+/nestin+ population in brain tumors suggests that a normal neural stem cell may be the cell of origin for gliomas. We have identified human CD133-positive NSCs from adult glioma tissue and established them as long-term in vitro cultures human neuroglial culture (HNGC)-1. Replicative senescence in HNGC-1 led to a high level of genomic instability and emergence of a spontaneously...
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