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Patient Derived Cell Culture and Isolation of CD133+ Putative Cancer Stem Cells from Melanoma
Published on: March 13, 2013
Cancer stem cells sustaining the growth of mouse melanoma are not rare
Yong Zhong1, Kaopeng Guan, Chunxia Zhou
1Department of Immunology, Cancer Institute, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Pan Jia Yuan Nan Li, Chao Yang, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Cancer stem cell (CSC) is generally believed to be a very small proportion of tumor cells capable of initiating and sustaining growth of the tumor. Its existence is usually demonstrated by xenotransplanting human cancer cells in immunodeficient mice. In this paper, we report that the growth of B16-F10 melanoma cells in syngeneic mice could be maintained by a relatively larger proportion (>10%) of tumor cells. The result of this study does not seem to support the current view that cancer stem cells (CSCs) responsible for the sustainable growth of tumor are rare.
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