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Survival of Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers Can Be Predicted by a Surrogate microRNA Signature for Cancer Stem–like Cells Marked by DCLK1 Kinase
10 Jun 2016
Abstract excerpt
Doublecortin-like kinase 1 (DCLK1) is a gastrointestinal (GI) tuft cell kinase that has been investigated as a biomarker of cancer stem-like cells in colon and pancreatic cancers. However, its utility as a biomarker may be limited in principle by signal instability and dilution in heterogeneous tumors, where the proliferation of diverse tumor cell lineages obscures the direct measurement of DCLK1 activity. To...
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