Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …

Targeting cancer stem cells for reversing therapy resistance: mechanism, signaling, and prospective agents

HM Zhou, JG Zhang, X Zhang, Q Li - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) show a self-renewal capacity and differentiation potential that
contribute to tumor progression and therapy resistance. However, the underlying processes …

[HTML][HTML] Carcinoma-associated fibroblasts promote the stemness and chemoresistance of colorectal cancer by transferring exosomal lncRNA H19

J Ren, L Ding, D Zhang, G Shi, Q Xu, S Shen… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in the pathology of various tumors, including
colorectal cancer (CRC). The crosstalk between carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) …

Stemness in cancer: stem cells, cancer stem cells, and their microenvironment

PM Aponte, A Caicedo - Stem cells international, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Stemness combines the ability of a cell to perpetuate its lineage, to give rise to differentiated
cells, and to interact with its environment to maintain a balance between quiescence …

Breast cancer stem cells as drivers of tumor chemoresistance, dormancy and relapse: new challenges and therapeutic opportunities

ML De Angelis, F Francescangeli, A Zeuner - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women worldwide. Therapeutic strategies
to prevent or treat metastatic disease are still inadequate although great progress has been …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of targeting cancer stem cells to halt metastasis

A Agliano, A Calvo, C Box - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite a continuing debate about the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs), recent
discoveries have provided further support for their existence and their roles in drug …

DNA damage response and resistance of cancer stem cells

E Abad, D Graifer, A Lyakhovich - Cancer Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The cancer stem cell (CSC) model defines tumors as hierarchically organized entities,
containing a small population of tumorigenic CSC, or tumour-initiating cells, placed at the …

Wnt signaling in cancer stem cell biology

F De Sousa e Melo, L Vermeulen - Cancers, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aberrant regulation of Wnt signaling is a common theme seen across many tumor types.
Decades of research have unraveled the epigenetic and genetic alterations that result in …

Breast cancer stem cell: the roles and therapeutic implications

F Yang, J Xu, L Tang, X Guan - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Breast cancers have been increasingly recognized as malignancies displaying frequent
inter-and intra-tumor heterogeneity. This heterogeneity is represented by diverse subtypes …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting cancer stem cells and their niche: perspectives for future therapeutic targets and strategies

Y Zhao, Q Dong, J Li, K Zhang, J Qin, J Zhao… - Seminars in cancer …, 2018 - Elsevier
A small subpopulation of cells within the bulk of tumors share features with somatic stem
cells, in that, they are capable of self-renewal, they differentiate, and are highly resistant to …