Graphene oxide selectively targets cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types: Implications for non-toxic cancer treatment, via "differentiation-based nano-therapy"

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3553-3562

  Fiorillo, Marco ^a,b,c   Verre, Andrea F ^b   Iliut, Maria ^b   Peiris Pagés, Maria ^a,b   Ozsvari, Bela ^a,b   Gandara, Ricardo ^a,b   Cappello, Anna Rita ^c   Sotgia, Federica ^a,b   Vijayaraghavan, Aravind ^b   Lisanti, Michael P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

And glioblastoma (brain); Cancer stem cells; Differentiation therapy; Graphene oxide; Lung; Multiple cancer types: breast; Nanomaterials; Ovarian; Pancreatic; Prostate

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; STAT PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; GRAPHITE; OXIDE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FIBROBLAST; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PROSTATE CANCER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; MCF-7 CELL LINE; NANOMEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; NANOMEDICINE; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; OXIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84924247657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.3348     Document Type: Article

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