Suspension culture combined with anticancer regimens for screening breast cancer stem cells

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 988-990

  Li, Hai Zhi ^a   Yi, Tong Bo ^a   Wu, Zheng Yan ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CD24 ANTIGEN; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HERMES ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STEM CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 33847049376     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.059     Document Type: Article

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