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Assessment of potential anti-cancer stem cell activity of marine algal compounds using an in vitro mammosphere assay

BACKGROUND: The cancer stem cell (CSC) theory proposes that tumours arise from and are sustained by a subpopulation of cells with both cancer and stem cell properties. One of the key hallmarks of CSCs is the ability to grow anchorage-independently under serum-free culture conditions resulting in the...

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Autores principales: de la Mare, Jo-Anne, Sterrenberg, Jason N, Sukhthankar, Mugdha G, Chiwakata, Maynard T, Beukes, Denzil R, Blatch, Gregory L, Edkins, Adrienne L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23631621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2867-13-39