Cancer stem cells in colorectal cancer: a review

MJ Munro, SK Wickremesekera, L Peng… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - jcp.bmj.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cancer in women and the third most
common in men. Adenocarcinoma accounts for 90% of CRC cases. There has been …

Chemotherapy resistance in epithelial ovarian cancer: Mechanisms and emerging treatments

C Marchetti, F De Felice, A Romito, V Iacobelli… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer (OC) remains a fatal malignancy because most patients experience
recurrent disease, which is resistant to chemotherapy. The outcomes for patients with …

Identifying high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma–specific extracellular vesicles by polyketone-coated nanowires

A Yokoi, M Ukai, T Yasui, Y Inokuma… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cancer cell–derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have unique protein profiles, making them
promising targets as disease biomarkers. High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is …

Designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins): binding proteins for research, diagnostics, and therapy

A Plückthun - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) can recognize targets with specificities and
affinities that equal or surpass those of antibodies, but because of their robustness and …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and clinical relevance of EpCAM

L Keller, S Werner, K Pantel - Cell stress, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a transmembrane glycoprotein primarily
known to mediate homotypic cell contacts in epithelia tissues. Because EpCAM expression …

[HTML][HTML] EpCAM: structure and function in health and disease

U Schnell, V Cirulli, BNG Giepmans - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
Injection of tumor cells in mice more than 30years ago resulted in the discovery of an
epithelial antigen, later defined as a cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM). Although EpCAM has …

Analysis of exosome release and its prognostic value in human colorectal cancer

J Silva, V Garcia, M Rodriguez… - Genes …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A significant proportion of extracellular nucleic acids in plasma circulate highly protected in
tumor‐specific exosomes, but it is unclear how the release of exosomes is modulated in …

Biologic challenges in the detection of circulating tumor cells

SA Joosse, K Pantel - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Carcinoma cells found in the blood of cancer patients are predictors of metastatic
progression and may guide treatment decisions. Most of the current strategies for detecting …

The plasticity of pancreatic cancer stem cells: Implications in therapeutic resistance

K Patil, FB Khan, S Akhtar, A Ahmad… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2021 - Springer
The ever-growing perception of cancer stem cells (CSCs) as a plastic state rather than a
hardwired defined entity has evolved our understanding of the functional and biological …

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is associated with prostate cancer metastasis and chemo/radioresistance via the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway

J Ni, P Cozzi, J Hao, J Beretov, L Chang… - The international journal …, 2013 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (CaP) is the second leading malignancy in men. The role of epithelial cell
adhesion molecule (EpCAM), also known as CD326, in CaP progression and therapeutic …