[HTML][HTML] Tumorsphere as an effective in vitro platform for screening anti-cancer stem cell drugs

CH Lee, CC Yu, BY Wang, WW Chang - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a sub-population of cells within cancer tissues with tumor
initiation, drug resistance and metastasis properties. CSCs also have been considered as …

[HTML][HTML] The culture of cancer cell lines as tumorspheres does not systematically result in cancer stem cell enrichment

CY Calvet, FM André, LM Mir - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Cancer stem cells (CSC) have raised great excitement during the last decade and are
promising targets for an efficient treatment of tumors without relapses and metastases …

[HTML][HTML] Therapies targeting cancer stem cells: Current trends and future challenges

DL Dragu, LG Necula, C Bleotu… - World journal of stem …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traditional therapies against cancer, chemo-and radiotherapy, have multiple limitations that
lead to treatment failure and cancer recurrence. These limitations are related to systemic …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a novel and economical agar-based non-adherent three-dimensional culture method for enrichment of cancer stem-like cells

W Gao, D Wu, Y Wang, Z Wang, C Zou, Y Dai… - Stem cell research & …, 2018 - Springer
Background Non-adherent or ultra-low attachment three-dimensional (3D) culture, also
called sphere formation assay, has been widely used to assess the malignant phenotype …

[HTML][HTML] Chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assays as a model of patient-derived xenografts from circulating cancer stem cells (cCSCs) in breast cancer patients

M Pizon, D Schott, U Pachmann, R Schobert, M Pizon… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Circulating cancer cells—and in particular their very rare subpopulation,
circulating cancer stem cells (cCSCs)—are responsible for recurrence and metastasis. In …

[HTML][HTML] Nonadhesive culture system as a model of rapid sphere formation with cancer stem cell properties

SF Chen, YC Chang, S Nieh, CL Liu, CY Yang, YS Lin - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play an important role in tumor initiation, progression,
and metastasis and are responsible for high therapeutic failure rates. Identification and …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer cells stemness: A doorstep to targeted therapy

S Prasad, S Ramachandran, N Gupta, I Kaushik… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent advances in research on cancer have led to understand the pathogenesis of cancer
and development of new anticancer drugs. Despite of these advancements, many tumors …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro models of cancer stem cells and clinical applications

S S. Franco, K Szczesna, MS Iliou, M Al-Qahtani… - BMC cancer, 2016 - Springer
Cancer cells, stem cells and cancer stem cells have for a long time played a significant role
in the biomedical sciences. Though cancer therapy is more effective than it was a few years …

Cancer stem cells niche: a target for novel cancer therapeutics

SY Yi, YB Hao, KJ Nan, TL Fan - Cancer treatment reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Nowadays, cancer has been a frequent disease, and the first or second most common cause
of death worldwide. Despite a better understanding of the biology of cancer cells, the …

Surface markers of cancer stem cells in solid tumors

P Xia - Current stem cell research & therapy, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small subpopulation of cells within tumors with capabilities
of self-renewal, differentiation, and tumorigenicity. Successful cancer treatment would need …