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ReviewWorld journal of stem cells2015

Identify multiple myeloma stem cells: Utopia?

Ilaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria

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Review in World journal of stem cells, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ilaria SaltarellaIlaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine "G. Baccelli", University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Medical School, Policlinico, I-70124 Bari, Italy.
Aurelia LamanuzziIlaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine "G. Baccelli", University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Medical School, Policlinico, I-70124 Bari, Italy.
Antonia RealeIlaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine "G. Baccelli", University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Medical School, Policlinico, I-70124 Bari, Italy.
Angelo VaccaIlaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine "G. Baccelli", University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Medical School, Policlinico, I-70124 Bari, Italy.
Roberto RiaIlaria Saltarella, Aurelia Lamanuzzi, Antonia Reale, Angelo Vacca, Roberto Ria, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine "G. Baccelli", University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Medical School, Policlinico, I-70124 Bari, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematologic malignancy of monoclonal plasma cells which remains incurable despite recent advances in therapies. The presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) has been demonstrated in many solid and hematologic tumors, so the idea of CSCs has been proposed for MM, even if MM CSCs have not been define yet. The existence of myeloma CSCs with clonotypic B and clonotypic non B cells was postulated by many groups. This review aims to focus on these distinct clonotypic subpopulations and on their ability to develop and sustain MM. The bone marrow microenvironment provides to MM CSCs self-renewal, survival and drug resistance thanks to the presence of normal and cancer stem cell niches. The niches and CSCs interact each other through adhesion molecules and the interplay between ligands and receptors activates stemness signaling (Hedgehog, Wnt and Notch pathways). MM CSCs are also supposed to be responsible for drug resistance that happens in three steps from the initial cancer cell homing microenvironment-mediated to development of microenvironment-independent drug resistance. In this review, we will underline all these aspects of MM CSCs.

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Bone marrow microenvironmentCancer stem cellsMultiple myelomaStem cells nicheStemness

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PMID25621108
PMCPMC4300939

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