Human prostate cancer stem cells: new features unveiled

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（3）
• 页码范围: 355-356
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1038/aja.2011.17

摘要

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a rare sub-population of phenotypically distinct cancer cells exhibiting stem cell characteristics.They are tumourigenic, meanwhile capable of self-renewal and forming differentiated progenies.CSCs are believed to be resistant to the standard therapeutics, and provide the cell reservoir for tumour initiation.1 Understanding CSCs or in another word, tumour-initiating cells, is of critical therapeutic importance.