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MicroRNAS( miRNAs) are a class of single strand, small non-coding RNAs about 22 nucleotides, which have the function to regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally and control the biological processes,such as proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. Recent studies indicate that miRNA plays an important role in tumor involved in invasion and metastasis. This article mainly reviews the feature of miRNA and its effect in metastasis or recurrence of breast cancer.
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With the proposition of the cancer stem cell theory, researchers have separated and app-raised cancer stem cells from many malignant tumors such as leukemia, breast cancer, brain tumor, lung cancer, prostatic carcinoma and so on. Some scholars discovered that CD133+ may be a specific marker of the colon cancer,which led the fide of the colon cancer stem cell research. This paper presents the latest progress on colon cancer stern cell through its contribution on clinical drug-resistence, metastasis and application.
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AIM: This study is designed to demonstrate the drug resistance breast cancer cell line MCF-7/ADM has a higher proportion of cancer stem cells than its original parent cell line MCF-7 in vitro.METHODS: Firstly,the drug resistance of MCF-7/ADM was estimated by MTT method,and then higher proportion of cancer stem cells in MCF-7/ADM than that in MCF-7 was demonstrated by three aspects: side population analysis,sphere culture and cell surface markers of breast cancer stem cells.RESULTS: The drug resistance index of MCF-7/ADM compared to MCF-7 was 37.1.The proportion of side population in MCF-7/ADM and MCF-7 was 9.60%?0.66% versus 0.39%?0.11%;The proportion of sphere-initiating cells in MCF-7/ADM and MCF-7 was 10.27%?0.64% versus 1.03%?0.15%,and the proportion of CD+44CD-24 cells in these two cell lines was 64.87%?3.87% versus 3.70%?0.53%,all are statistically significant.CONCLUSION: ADM resistance breast cancer cell line MCF-7/ADM has a higher proportion of cancer stem cells than that in its original cell line MCF-7.