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Detection of putative cancer stem cells of the side population phenotype in human tumor cell cultures.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2012
Christgen Matthias, Ballmaier Matthias, Lehmann Ulrich, Kreipe Hans
Abstract excerpt
Human solid tumors and clonal tumor cell lines comprise phenotypically and functionally diverse subsets of cancer cells and also contain stem cell-like cancer cells. Side population (SP) cells, which pump out the fluorescent dye Hoechst 33342 (H33342) via the ABCG2 transporter, define a fraction of adult tissue stem cells in a wide variety of organs. Rare cancer cells with similar H33342 efflux capacity and...
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