ReviewCancer research2022
Drug-Tolerant Persister Cells in Cancer Therapy Resistance.
Review in Cancer research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.
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91 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Cell-intrinsic and tumor microenvironmental determinants of platinum resistance in epithelial ovarian cancer.Discover oncology · 2026Review
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- Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation as the target for blocking therapy-resistance and inhibiting tumor recurrence: The proof-of-principle model demonstrated for ovarian cancer cells.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- High Glycolysis and Lipid Metabolism Status Predicts Poor Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer Patients.Current molecular medicine · 2026Article
- Drug-tolerant persister cells in lymphoid malignancies: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
One of the current stumbling blocks in our fight against cancer is the development of acquired resistance to therapy, which is attributable to approximately 90% of cancer-related deaths. Undercutting this process during treatment could significantly improve cancer management. In many cases, drug resistance is mediated by a drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cell subpopulation present in tumors, often referred to as persister cells. This review provides a summary of currently known persister cell subpopulations and approaches to target them. A specific DTP cell subpopulation with elevated levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity has stem cell-like characteristics and a high level of plasticity, enabling them to switch rapidly between high and low ALDH activity. Further studies are required to fully elucidate the functions of ALDH-high DTP cells, how they withstand drug concentrations that kill other cells, and how they rapidly adapt under levels of high cellular stress and eventually lead to more aggressive, recurrent, and drug-resistant cancer. Furthermore, this review addresses the processes used by the ALDH-high persister cell subpopulation to enable cancer progression, the ALDH isoforms important in these processes, interactions of ALDH-high DTPs with the tumor microenvironment, and approaches to therapeutically modulate this subpopulation in order to more effectively manage cancer.
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