Stem Cells and Prostate Cancer

Recent evidence demonstrates that normal prostate tissue contains stem cells.  There is also accumulating evidence that prostate cancer contains a population of cells with stem cell-like characteristics referred to as cancer stem cells, or tumor initiating cells.  Both the normal prostate stem cell...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Autres auteurs: Cramer, Scott D. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Édition:1st ed. 2013.
Sujets:
Cancer.
Cytology.
Medicine-Research.
Biology-Research.
Cancer Biology.
Cell Biology.
Biomedical Research.
Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Stem Cells and Prostate Development
  • Isolation and Characterization of Prostate Stem Cells
  • Prostate tumor initiating cells
  • TIC Markers and methods of characterization
  • Genetic Control of Self Renewal of the TIC
  • Therapeutic targeting of the prostate TIC.- The prostate stem cell niche.- Tumor stroma control of the prostate TIC.- Targeting the prostate stem cell for chemoprevention.- Stem cell models for functional validation of prostate cancer genes
  • Index .

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