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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2024

In Vitro Tumorigenic Assay: A Tumor Sphere Assay for Cancer Stem Cells.

Amani Yehya, Hisham Bahmad, Wassim Abou-Kheir

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Amani YehyaDepartment of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Hisham BahmadArkadi M. Rywlin M.D. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
Wassim Abou-KheirDepartment of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. wa12@aub.edu.lb.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a subpopulation of tumor cells that are thought to be responsible for therapy resistance, recurrence, and metastasis through their capacity to self-renew and differentiate into heterogeneous downstream lineages of cancer cells. Understanding the features of CSCs is crucial for managing cancer disease and establishing potential targeted therapeutics. Tumor sphere formation assay is a widely used in vitro method that selects and enriches the CSC subpopulation from the total population of cancer cells, based on their inherent ability to grow and clonally expand in serum-free and nonadherent culture conditions. Here we provide a detailed methodology to generate and propagate spheres from isolated cell suspensions of tumor tissues and cell lines using a semisolid Matrigel

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CarcinogenesisSpheroids, CellularCell Line, TumorHumansNeoplastic Stem CellsCancer stem cellsDifferentiationMatrigelTMSelf-renewalTumor sphere assay

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PMID38478338

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