Human malignant melanoma harbours a large fraction of highly clonogenic cells that do not express markers associated with cancer stem cells

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 449-451

  Prasmickaite, Lina ^a   Skrbo, Nirma ^a   Høifødt, Hanne K ^a   Suo, Zhenhe ^a,b   Engebråten, Olav ^a   Gullestad, Hans P ^a   Aamdal, Steinar ^a   Fodstad, Øystein ^a,b   Mælandsmo, Gunhild M ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P75; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR SPHEROID;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 77952571278     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00690.x     Document Type: Letter

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