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Role of Oxidative Stress in Stem, Cancer, and Cancer Stem Cells
17 May 2010
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The term ''oxidative stress" refers to a cell's state characterized by excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress is one of the most important regulatory mechanisms for stem, cancer, and cancer stem cells. The concept of cancer stem cells arose from observations of similarities between the self-renewal mechanism of stem cells and that of cancer stem cells, but compared to normal...
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