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Morphine promotes cancer stem cell properties, contributing to chemoresistance in breast cancer
Morphine is an opioid analgesic drug commonly used for pain relief in cancer patients. Here, we report that morphine enhances the mammosphere forming capacity and increases the expression of stemness-related transcription factors Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog. Treatment with morphine leads to enrichment of a...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Impact Journals LLC
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4414166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25686831 |