Emerging evidence for MicroRNAs as regulators of cancer stem cells

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3957-3971

  Sethi, Aisha ^a   Sholl, Lynette M ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; MicroRNAs

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CARCINOGEN; DOCETAXEL; GEMCITABINE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 34; PROTEIN LIN28B; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DRUG TARGETING; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVIEW; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 84055184566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3043957     Document Type: Review

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