Cellular immortality in brain tumours: An integration of the cancer stem cell paradigm

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1792, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 280-288

  Rahman, Ruman ^a   Heath, Rachel ^a   Grundy, Richard ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain tumour stem cell; Neural stem cell; Neurogenesis; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 64249130120     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.01.011     Document Type: Review

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