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New Findings Reported from First Affiliated Hospital Describe Advances in Stem Cell Research

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 27th, 2012

2012 MAR 27 -- A new study, "Re-expression of miR-21 contributes to migration and invasion by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition consistent with cancer stem cell characteristics in MCF-7 cells," is now available. "MiR-21 is known to play an important role in the development and progression, including migration and invasion, of many malignancies including breast cancer. Accumulating evidence suggest that the induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotype and acquisition of cancer stem cell (CSC) characteristics are highly interrelated, and contribute to tumorigenesis, tumor progression, metastasis, and relapse," researchers in Chongqing, People's...

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