cancer stem cells

[Developmental Cell] F3-antibody-sorted glioblastoma cells exhibited stem cell gene expression, enhanced self-renewal in culture, drove tumor initiation and serial transplantation, and reconstituted tumor heterogeneity.

[Gut] Researchers demonstrated that PDAC tumors established an organised communication network between subpopulations of cancer cells using EVs called the EVNet.

[Science Advances] Scientists identified a lectin, SLBR-N, which bound to O-linked α2,3 sialic acids, that was able to enrich for CSCs in vitro and in vivo. This O-glycan was expressed on CD44 and promoted its interaction with hyaluronic acid, facilitating CD44 signaling and CSC properties.

[Scientific Reports] Investigators established a model of CSCs that was originally developed from mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (miPSCs) by proposing miPSCs to the conditioned medium of cancer derived cells, which was a mimic of carcinoma microenvironment.

[Theranostics] Wnt signaling was activated by the overexpression of Lrp5 and β-catenin in osteoblasts as well as a pharmacological agent and the therapeutic effects of their conditioned medium were evaluated using in vitro cell cultures, ex vivo breast cancer tissues, and a mouse model of osteolysis.

[Frontiers in Immunology] The stemness of OAcGD2+ cells isolated by sorting and the effects of mAb8B6 were assessed by cancer stem cell growth and mammosphere formation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo using patient-derived xenograft models.