Searching for Prostate Cancer Stem Cells: Markers and Methods
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Prostate stem cells and prostate cancer.
Understanding prostate stem cells (PSCs) may provide insight for the design of therapeutics for prostate cancer. We have developed a quantitative in vivo colony-forming assay and have demonstrated that the Sca-1 antigen is present on the surface of a prostate cell subpopulation that possesses multiple stem cell properties. Immunofluorescent analysis demonstrates that Sca-1 is expressed by both ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stem Cell Reviews and Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1550-8943,1558-6804
DOI: 10.1007/s12015-013-9453-4