Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Cancer Stem Cells - The Cutting Edge

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Stanley Shostak
Stanley Shostak

University of Pittsburgh,
United States of America

Published01 August 2011

Doi10.5772/734

ISBN978-953-307-580-8

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6444-9

Copyright year2011

Number of pages632

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Table of Contents

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1. Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells

By Lucinei Roberto Oliveira, Andrielle de Castilho Fernandes and Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva

4,242
2. Clinical Significance of Putative Cancer Stem Cells in Residual Cancer Cells After Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer

By Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yuji Toiyama, Keiichi Uchida, Chikao Miki and Masato Kusunoki

2,296
3. Cancer Stem Cells in Solid Organ Malignancies: Mechanisms of Treatment Resistance and Strategies for Therapeutic Targeting

By Marcus M. Monroe, Crystal J. Hessman, Daniel R. Clayburgh, Emily J. Bubbers and Melissa H. Wong

2,532
5. Stem Cell Growth as a Model of Carcinogenesis

By Steven Poser, Joseph Alisky, Kuei-Fang Chung, Doreen Ebermann, Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein, Stefan Bornstein and Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis

1,924
6. Cancer Stem Cells in Multiple Myeloma

By Sabino Ciavarella, Annalisa Milano, Annalisa Savonarola, Oronzo Brunetti, Franco Dammacco and Franco Silvestris

2,704
7. Systems and Network Understanding of Cancer Stem Cells

By Asfar S. Azmi, Ramzi M. Mohammad, Sanjeev Banerjee, Zhiwei Wang, Bin Bao and Fazlul H. Sarkar

2,027
8. What do We Know About Cancer Stem Cells? Utilizing Colon Cancer as an Example

By Benhaim Leonor, Labonte Melissa and Lenz Heinz-Joseph

1,899
5,204
11. Transformation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

By Nedime Serakinci, Rikke Christensen and Umut Fahrioglu

2,354
12. Brain Tumor Stem Cells and Anti-Angiogenic Therapy

By Katsuya Saito, Kazunari Yoshida and Masahiro Toda

2,220
14. Glioma Stem Cells

By Ryan Y. Kim, Ali Mahta and Santosh Kesari

2,086
16. The Hedgehog Signaling Network and the Development of Gastric Cancer

By Jessica M. Donnelly, JeanMarie Houghton and Yana Zavros

2,212
17. Differentiation of Cancer Stem Cells

By Taro Yamashita, Masao Honda and Shuichi Kaneko

2,983
18. Carbohydrate Antigens as Cancer-Initiating Cell Markers

By Wei-Ming Lin, Uwe Karsten, Steffen Goletz and Yi Cao

2,944
19. Influence of Culture Environment and Mollicutes Contaminations on CD133 Modulation in Cancer Stem Cells

By Elisabetta Mariotti, Peppino Mirabelli, Francesca D’Alessio, Marica Gemei, Rosa Di Noto, Giuliana Fortunato and Luigi Del Vecchio

1,848
20. Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Cancer Stem Cells

By Atique U. Ahmed, Bart Thaci, Derek A. Wainwright, Mahua Dey and Maciej S. Lesniak

2,695
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25. Large-Scale Production of Human Glioblastoma-Derived Cancer Stem Cell Tissue in Suspension Bioreactors to Facilitate the Development of Novel Oncolytic Therapeutics

By Krishna Panchalingam, Wendy Paramchuk, Parvinder Hothi, Nameeta Shah, Leroy Hood, Greg Foltz and Leo A. Behie

2,404
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