ArticleACS omega2017
Impact of Environmental Pollutant Cadmium on the Establishment of a Cancer Stem Cell Population in Breast and Hepatic Cancer.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Calcium and Cadmium Activate ESRRB to Mediate Cell Stemness and Pluripotency.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Imaging Sensing of Cadmium-Induced Single Cancer Stem Cells in Tumor Spheroid Fabricated by 3D Bioprinting.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- CD44 as a Central Integrator of Inflammation and Fibrosis: From Molecular Signaling to Environmental Modulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Quantum Dot-Fab' Conjugates as Compact Immunolabels for Microtubule Imaging and Cell Classification.ACS nano · 2024Article
- Uncovering the Genetic of Cadmium Accumulation in the Rice 3K Panel.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Environmental Cadmium Exposure Promotes the Development, Progression and Chemoradioresistance of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Environmental chemicals, breast cancer progression and drug resistance.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Review
- Effects of lead and cadmium on the immune system and cancer progression.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2020Review
- Metal carcinogen exposure induces cancer stem cell-like property through epigenetic reprograming: A novel mechanism of metal carcinogenesis.Seminars in cancer biology · 2019Review
- Cadmium Exposure as a Putative Risk Factor for the Development of Pancreatic Cancer: Three Different Lines of Evidence.BioMed research international · 2017Review
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Abstract
Cadmium, a heavy metal pollutant, causes cancer. The existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in tumors is widely considered to be the reason for the recurrence and treatment failure of cancer. Increasing evidence has confirmed that under certain conditions non-CSCs could be converted into CSCs. The impact of cadmium on the development of CSC lineage in the bulk tumor cell population is not yet studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of cadmium on the conversion of non-CSCs to CSCs and the identification of CSCs based on the concurrent monitoring of multiple CSC markers. High-content monitoring of molecular markers was performed using quantum dot (QD) nanoprobes and an acousto-optical tunable filter (AOTF)-based imaging device. Cadmium treatment significantly increased the CSC population in MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines. The cadmium-induced CSCs were identified by a concurrent analysis of stem-cell markers, namely, CD44, CD24, CD133, and ALDH1. Moreover, increased m-RNA expression of CD44, ALDH1, and CD133 and protein expression of p-Ras, p-Raf-1, p-MEK-1, and p-ERK-1 were observed in the cadmium-treated MCF-7 and HepG2 cells. This study demonstrates that cadmium induces the gene expression of CSC markers in the breast and liver cancer cell lineage and promotes the conversion of non-CSCs to CSCs.
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