Non-invasive in vivo imaging of tumor-associated CD133/prominin.

Cancer stem cells are thought to play a pivotal role in tumor maintenance, metastasis, tumor therapy resistance and relapse. Hence, the development of methods for non-invasive in vivo detection of cancer stem cells is of great importance.Here, we describe successful in vivo detection of CD133/promin...

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Main Authors: Chizuko Tsurumi, Norbert Esser, Elke Firat, Simone Gaedicke, Marie Follo, Martin Behe, Ursula Elsässer-Beile, Anca-Ligia Grosu, Ralph Graeser, Gabriele Niedermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3004948?pdf=render