Stemness, cancer and cancer stem cells

Cell Cycle

Volumn 7, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 3622-3624

  Wong, David J ^a   Segal, Eran ^b   Chang, Howard Y ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cancer; Cancer stem cell; Functional genomics; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

I KAPPA B; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURFACE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 57349107094     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.7.23.7104     Document Type: Short Survey

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