Cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment: Interplay in tumor heterogeneity

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 414-425

  Albini, Adriana ^a   Bruno, Antonino ^b   Gallo, Cristina ^a   Pajardi, Giorgio ^b,c   Noonan, Douglas M ^b,d   Dallaglio, Katiuscia ^a  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS MULTIMEDICA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer initiating cells; cancer stem cells; connective tissue; heterogeneity; tumor microenvironment

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INITIATING CELL; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METASTASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL NICHE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84943363654     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: 16078438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03008207.2015.1066780     Document Type: Article

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