Received: July 25, 2016; Accepted: August 08, 2016; Published: August 08, 2016 The pluripotency of embryonic stem cells, which are capable of unlimited self-renewal and differentiation into every type of cell in the body, is provided by the extensive expression of genes encoding stemness factors, among which the transcription factors such as Sox2, Pou5f1, Nanog are most frequently enumerated [1...

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a rapidly progressive brain tumor with a median survival of 15-19 months. Therapeutic resistance and recurrence of the disease is attributed to cancer stem cells (CSC). Here, we report that CMV70-3P miRNA encoded by CMV increases GBM CSC stemness. Inhibition of CMV70-3P expression using oligo inhibitors significantly attenuated the ability of primary glioma cell...

During asymmetric mitosis, both in male Drosophila germline stem cells and in mouse embryo neural progenitors, the mother centrosome is retained by the self-renewed cell; hence suggesting that mother centrosome inheritance might contribute to stemness. We test this hypothesis in Drosophila neuroblasts (NBs) tracing photo converted centrioles and a daughter-centriole-specific marker generated by...

G-protein coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) is a transmembrane that mediates non-genomic effects of estrogen. This study aimed to investigate the role GPER in stemness formation and malignancies triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells. Spheroids MDA-MB-468 cells were induced by mammosphere culture, proportion CD44+ /CD24−/low stem cell subpopulation was detected. Malignant characteristics, ex...

Background and Aims: Previous studies have shown that adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/ stromal cells are one of the sources of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) with the capacity to differentiate into various mesodermal cell lineages. MSCs with cytokines secretion capability, which contributes to repair damaged tissues have gained wide credence for future cell-based therapeutic applications. In th...

GBM Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are responsible for growth, recurrence and resistance to chemoand radio-therapy. They are supposed to originnate from the transformation of Neural stem cells (NSC) of the Sub-ventricular zone (SVZ) or Sub-granular zone (SGZ) of hippocampus. Alternatively, they can be the expression of a functional status of competence or dedifferentiated cells of the tumor re-acquir...

BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) with multilineage potential and anti-inflammatory property can be isolated from different human tissues, representing promising candidates in regenerative medicine. Despite the common criteria of characterization, many factors contribute to MSC heterogeneity (i.e., tissue origin, coexistence of cell subsets at different stage of differentiation, epigenet...

PURPOSE Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), like many solid tumors, contains a heterogeneous population of cancer cells. Recent data suggest that a rare subpopulation of cancer cells, termed cancer stem cells (CSC), is capable of initiating, maintaining, and expanding the growth of tumor. Identification and characterization of CSC from OSCC facilitates the monitoring, therapy, or prevention of...