Cancer stem cells in solid tumors: Is 'evading apoptosis' a hallmark of cancer?

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-399

  Enderling, Heiko ^a   Hahnfeldt, Philip ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer stem cell; Cellular automata; Invasion; Metastases; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MITOSIS INDEX; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MITOTIC INDEX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 80051641315     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.03.007     Document Type: Review

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