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Neural stem cells as novel cancer therapeutic vehicles.

Yip S, Sabetrasekh R, Sidman RL, Snyder EY

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; The Burnham Institute, Program in Developmental & Regenerative Cell Biology, 10901 North Torrey Pine Road, La Jolla CA 92037, USA.

The startling resemblance of many of the behaviours of brain tumours to the intrinsic properties of the neural stem/progenitor cell has triggered a recent dual interest in arming stem cells to track and help eradicate tumours and in viewing stem cell biology as somehow integral to the emergence and/or propagation of the neoplasm itself. These aspects are reviewed and discussed here.

Published 5 June 2006 in Eur J Cancer, 42(9): 1298-1308.
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