Cultivation and identification of colon cancer stem cell-derived spheres from the Colo205 cell line

Our group established a method to culture spheres under serum-free culture condition. However, the biological characteristics and the tumorigenicity of spheres are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that sphere cells expressed high levels of the putative colorectal cancer stem cell markers CD133 and CD44...

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Main Authors: Ying-fei Li, Bing Xiao, San-fang Tu, Yuan-yuan Wang, Xiao-lang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2012-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2012000300003&lng=en&tlng=en