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Claudins and cancer stem cells.
Stem cell reviews and reports - 1 Nov 2011
Turksen Kursad
Abstract excerpt
It is now believed that most epithelial tumors are maintained by a subpopulation of cells called cancer stem cells (CSCs) or tumor initiating cells (TICs) with stem cell-like properties, including self-renewal and multilineage differentiation capacity. Recently new insights into this population have emerged in certain epithelial tumor types, including their Claudin(low) phenotype and its importance to the...
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