2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of the role of stemness factor in ovarian cancer stem cell
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24791729
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Obstetrics and gynecology
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| Research Institution | Niigata University (2013)
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (2012) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 癌幹細胞 / 卵巣がん |
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| Research Abstract |
Cancer stem cells (CSC) can self-renew, differentiate and recapitulate the tumors. In the absence of serum, CSC from some solid tumors are capable of proliferation in vitro under sphere-forming conditions. We have established spheroid culture conditions for cultivating ovarian cancer cells derived from surgical specimen. These spheroid cells are tumorigenic when explanted into immunodeficient mice, and immuno-histological analysis indicates that the resulting tumors are indistinguishable from the originals. When serum is added to the in vitro culture media, the spheroid cells differentiate. shRNA-mediated knockdown of stemness factor inhibited cell proliferation.
The differentiated cells, when returned to the sphere-forming serum-free conditions, were capable of reforming spheroids and re-expression of the stem cell markers.
These findings indicated that the differentiation of the spheroid stem cells was highly reversible.
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[Journal Article] Induction of the Stem-like Cell Regulator CD44 by Rho Kinase Inhibition Contributes to the Maintenance of Colon Cancer -Initiating Cells2012
Author(s)
Hirokazu Ohata, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Yuki Aihara, Ai Sato, Hiroaki Sakai, Shigeki Sekine, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Takayuki Akasu, Shin Fujita, Hitoshi Nakagama, and Koji Okamoto
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Journal Title
Cancer Res
Volume: 72
Pages: 5101-5110
Peer Reviewed
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