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1 PublicationConcise Review: Prostate Cancer Stem Cells: Current Understandin
Skvortsov, S.; Skvortsova, I. I.; Tang, D. G.; Dubrovska, A.
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is heterogeneous, harboring phenotypically diverse cancer cell types. PCa cell heterogeneity is caused by genomic instability that leads to the clonal competition and evolution of the cancer genome and by epigenetic mechanisms that result in subclonal cellular differentiation. The process of tumor cell differentiation is initiated from a population of prostate cancer stem cells (PCSCs) that possess many phenotypic and functional properties of normal stem cells. Since the initial reports on PCSCs in 2005, there has been much effort to elucidate their biological properties, including unique metabolic characteristics. In this Review, we discuss the current methods for PCSC enrichment and analysis, the hallmarks of PCSC metabolism, and the role of PCSCs in tumor progression.
Keywords: Prostate; Cancer; Cancer stem cells; Heterogeneity; Metabolism
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Stem Cells 36(2018), 1457-1474
DOI: 10.1002/stem.2859
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