CSC news roundup 2010-02-28

• Tumor initiation via loss of cell contact inhibition versus Ras mutation: Do all roads lead to EMT? [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/bIYZjW


• CD133+ cells are more resistant to anticancer drugs than CD133- cells in neuroblastoma cell lines [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/bCJKkI


• Breast cancer chemoresistance: Emerging importance of CSC [FriendFeed entry][ResearchGATE entry][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/cmgfj4


• Neoplastic stem cells: Current concepts and clinical perspectives [Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/9cRlm2


• Nature Methods: Renaissance of classical pathology? Autofluorescence helps identify CSC in glioma [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://ow.ly/1ag7d


• New tool illuminates connections between stem cells and cancer [FriendFeed entry] http://bit.ly/9GLmQC


• ALDH Associated With Worse Overall Survival in Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma [FriendFeed entry][News release][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/982S5B


• ABCG2: a potential marker of stem cells and novel target in stem cell and cancer therapy [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/clJSiU


• Induction of cell cycle entry eliminates human leukemia stem cells in a mouse model of AML [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/9A2kHC


• Radiation Resistance of CSC - The 4R's of Radiobiology Revisited [FriendFeed entry][Connotea bookmark][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/ddLt3N


• Evaluation of the frequency of putative prostate CSC in primary and metastatic prostate cancer [FriendFeed entry][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/dba5IN


• Immunobiological Characterization of CSC Isolated from Glioblastoma Patients [FriendFeed entry][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/9t2ReY


• Circulating tumor cells with a putative stem cell phenotype in peripheral blood of patients with breast cancer [PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/d17EGn


• Side population and cancer stem cells: therapeutic implications [PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/ceNr2Y


• PTEN is a tumor suppressor in CML stem cells and BCR-ABL-induced leukemias in mice [FriendFeed entry][CiteULike entry][PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/c9VQTa


• Pancreatic cancer stem cells: new understanding of tumorigenesis, clinical implications [PubMed citation] http://bit.ly/agqb1E


• Targeting Cancer Stem Cells: Therapeutic Strategies and Pipeline Developments (Content, Jan 2010) [FriendFeed entry][BioPortfolio] http://bit.ly/cZzr3R


• Short (<2 min) video about researching pancreatic CSC at UCLA [FriendFeed entry] http://ow.ly/16NCQ


• Lecture: Max Wicha – The CSC hypothesis: biological and clinical implications (57 min) [FriendFeed entry] http://bit.ly/dhKdGD