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The malignant pleural effusion as a model to investigate intratumoral heterogeneity in lung cancer.
PloS one - 12 Jun 2009
Basak Saroj K, Veena Mysore S, Oh Scott, Huang Ge, Srivatsan Eri, Huang Min, Sharma Sherven, Batra Raj K
Abstract excerpt
Malignant Pleural Effusions (MPE) may be useful as a model to study hierarchical progression of cancer and/or intratumoral heterogeneity. To strengthen the rationale for developing the MPE-model for these purposes, we set out to find evidence for the presence of cancer stem cells (CSC) in MPE and demonstrate an ability to sustain intratumoral heterogeneity in MPE-primary cultures. Our studies show that candidate...
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