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The Role of Serotonin in Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 26 May 2021
Gwynne William D, Shakeel Mirza S, Girgis-Gabardo Adele, Hassell John A
Abstract excerpt
Breast tumors were the first tumors of epithelial origin shown to follow the cancer stem cell model. The model proposes that cancer stem cells are uniquely endowed with tumorigenic capacity and that their aberrant differentiation yields non-tumorigenic progeny, which constitute the bulk of the tumor cell population. Breast cancer stem cells resist therapies and seed metastases; thus, they account for breast...
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