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ArticleOncogenesis2018

Cigarette smoke stimulates the stemness of renal cancer stem cells via Sonic Hedgehog pathway.

Weiwei Qian, Xiaochuan Kong, Tao Zhang, Dengdian Wang, Jin Song, Yuan Li, Xiaoting Li, Hao Geng, Jie Min, Qi Kong and 6 more

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Article in Oncogenesis, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Weiwei QianDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Xiaochuan KongDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Tao ZhangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Dengdian WangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Jin SongDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Yuan LiDepartment of Nutrition and Food Safety, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
Xiaoting LiDepartment of Nutrition and Food Safety, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
Hao GengDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Jie MinDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Qi KongDepartment of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Jie LiuDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Zhiqi LiuDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Daming WangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Zhiqiang ZhangDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
Dexin YuDepartment of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China. ay2fy_uro@126.com.
Caiyun ZhongDepartment of Nutrition and Food Safety, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China. cyzhong@njmu.edu.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are essentially responsible for tumor initiation, growth, progression, metastasis and recurrence, and cigarette smoke (CS) is closely involved in the occurrence and development of kidney cancer. However, the effect of CS on renal CSCs has not been elucidated yet. In the present study, tumorsphere formation assay was used to enrich renal CSCs from 786-O and ACHN cells. We illustrated that CS effectively promoted renal CSCs stemness by enhancing tumorsphere formation, increasing the expression of renal CSCs markers (CD133, CD44, ALDHA1, Oct4, and Nanog) and elevating CD133

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