Maintenance of the stemness in CD44+ HCT-15 and HCT-116 human colon cancer cells requires miR-203 suppression

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-100

  Ju, Sy Yeuan ^a   Chiou, Shih Hwa ^a,b   Su, Yeu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 203; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL ISOLATION; COLON CANCER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ONCOGENE SRC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

CANCER STEM CELLS; CHIP; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CRC; CSCS; EMT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FACS; FCS; FETAL CALF SERUM; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HA; HYALURONAN; MICRORNAS; MIRNAS; PBS; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE.; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SHRNA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DOWN-REGULATION; E-BOX ELEMENTS; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84886006126     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: 18767753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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