Building Bonds: Cancer Stem Cells Depend on Their Progeny to Drive Tumor Progression.

Muthukrishnan, Sree Deepthi; Alvarado, Alvaro G; Kornblum, Harley I · Cell Stem Cell · 2018

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Abstract

Little is currently known about how cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) interact with their more restricted progeny. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Wang et al. (2018) demonstrate a novel bidirectional signaling axis between CSCs and their progeny that is mediated by brain-derived neurotrophic factor and VGF accelerating glioma progression.

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