Pituitary tumors contain a side population with 'tumor stem cell'-associated characteristics.
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Wouter Van Delm
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-62960 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Pituitary tumors contain a side population with tumor stem cell-associated characteristics.
Mertens Freya F Gremeaux Lies L Chen Jianghai J Fu Qiuli Q Willems Christophe C Roose Heleen H Govaere Olivier O Roskams Tania T Cristina Carolina C Becú-Villalobos Damasia D Jorissen Mark M Poorten Vincent Vander VV Bex Marie M van Loon Johannes J Vankelecom Hugo H
Endocrine-related cancer 20150428 4
Pituitary adenomas cause significant endocrine and mass-related morbidity. Little is known about the mechanisms that underlie pituitary tumor pathogenesis. In the present study, we searched for a side population (SP) in pituitary tumors representing cells with high efflux capacity and potentially enriched for tumor stem cells (TSCs). Human pituitary adenomas contain a SP irrespective of hormonal phenotype. This adenoma SP, as well as the purified SP (pSP) that is depleted from endothelial and im ...[more]
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