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ReviewStem cells international2016

Cancer Stem Cell Quiescence and Plasticity as Major Challenges in Cancer Therapy.

Wanyin Chen, Jihu Dong, Jacques Haiech, Marie-Claude Kilhoffer, Maria Zeniou

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Review in Stem cells international, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 232 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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232citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

232 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Wanyin ChenLaboratoire d'Innovation Thérapeutique, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR7200, Laboratoire d'Excellence Medalis, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.
Jihu DongLaboratoire d'Innovation Thérapeutique, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR7200, Laboratoire d'Excellence Medalis, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.
Jacques HaiechLaboratoire d'Innovation Thérapeutique, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR7200, Laboratoire d'Excellence Medalis, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.
Marie-Claude KilhofferLaboratoire d'Innovation Thérapeutique, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR7200, Laboratoire d'Excellence Medalis, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.
Maria ZeniouLaboratoire d'Innovation Thérapeutique, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR7200, Laboratoire d'Excellence Medalis, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3237-0263

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells with stem-like properties, tumorigenic potential, and treatment-resistant phenotypes have been identified in many human malignancies. Based on the properties they share with nonneoplastic stem cells or their ability to initiate and propagate tumors in vivo, such cells were designated as cancer stem (stem-like) or tumor initiating/propagating cells. Owing to their implication in treatment resistance, cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been the subject of intense investigation in past years. Comprehension of CSCs' intrinsic properties and mechanisms they develop to survive and even enhance their aggressive phenotype within the hostile conditions of the tumor microenvironment has reoriented therapeutic strategies to fight cancer. This report provides selected examples of malignancies in which the presence of CSCs has been evidenced and briefly discusses methods to identify, isolate, and functionally characterize the CSC subpopulation of cancer cells. Relevant biological targets in CSCs, their link to treatment resistance, proposed targeting strategies, and limitations of these approaches are presented. Two major aspects of CSC physiopathology, namely, relative in vivo quiescence and plasticity in response to microenvironmental cues or treatment, are highlighted. Implications of these findings in the context of the development of new therapies are discussed.

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PMID27418931
PMCPMC4932171

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