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Snail contributes to the maintenance of stem cell-like phenotype cells in human pancreatic cancer.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Zhou Wei, Lv Ran, Qi Weilin, Wu Di, Xu Yunyun, Liu Wei, Mou Yiping, Wang Liewei
Abstract excerpt
Snail, a potent repressor of E-cadherin expression, plays a key role in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in epithelial cancer. Recently, EMT and stemness programs are found linked together. In the current study, the expression of Snail and its contribution to cancer stem cell (CSC) marker expression, invasiveness, self-renewal, clonogenicity, and tumorigenicity of pancreatic cancer cells were studied....
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