CD49f is an efficient marker of monolayer- and spheroid colony-forming cells of the benign and malignant human prostate.

Stem cells may play a role in the development and maintenance of proliferative diseases of the prostate such as prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Cell membrane protein markers, CD49f, CD133 and CD44, have been shown to identify putative prostate stem cells, but a lack of consensus ex...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Hidekazu Yamamoto, John R Masters, Prokar Dasgupta, Ashish Chandra, Rick Popert, Alex Freeman, Aamir Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0046979&type=printable