Overexpression of metallothioneins, stem cell niches and field cancerization in experimental gliomagenesis Superexpresión de metalotioneínas, nichos de células madre y campos de cancerización en gliomagénesis experimental A superexpressão de metalotioneínas em células-tronco de áreas cancerígenas na gênese de glioma experimental

INTRODUCTION: stem cells may originate and perpetuate the tumor growth, but they are poorly known in gliomagenesis. Metallothioneins (MTs) are proteins involved in oncogenesis and immunopositivity, for MT may be used as a stem cell mutation marker. OBJECTIVE: to study the MT expression in the ENU ex...

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Main Authors: Julio César Fernandes da Silva, Vinicius Kanen Cardoso, Aline Turatti, Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva, Carlos Fernando Pereira da Silva Herrero, Sergio Britto Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (SBC) 2009-12-01
Series:Coluna/Columna
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-18512009000400015