Self-renewing Pten-/- TP53-/- protospheres produce metastatic adenocarcinoma cell lines with multipotent progenitor activity.

Prostate cancers of luminal adenocarcinoma histology display a range of clinical behaviors. Although most prostate cancers are slow-growing and indolent, a proportion is aggressive, developing metastasis and resistance to androgen deprivation treatment. One hypothesis is that a portion of aggressive...

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Main Authors: Wassim Abou-Kheir, Paul G Hynes, Philip Martin, Juan Juan Yin, Yen-Nien Liu, Victoria Seng, Ross Lake, Joshua Spurrier, Kathleen Kelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3191168?pdf=render