Biochemistry & Pharmacology: Open Access
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Punita Dhawan

Publications

• Review Article
  Cancer Stem Cell and Gastrointestinal Cancer: Current Status, Targeted Therapy and Future Implications
  Author(s): Rizwan Ahmad, Punita Dhawan and Amar B SinghRizwan Ahmad, Punita Dhawan and Amar B Singh
  
  The cancer stem cells (CSCs) are biologically distinct subset of rare cancer cells with inherent ability of self-renewal, de-differentiation, and capacity to initiate and maintain malignant tumor growth. Studies have further reported that CSCs prime cancer recurrence and therapy resistance. Therefore, targeting CSCs to inhibit cancer progression has become an attractive anti-cancer therapeutical strategy. Recent technical advances have provided a greater appreciation of the multistep nature of the oncogenesis and also clarified that CSC concept is not universally applicable. Irrespective, the role of the CSCs in gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, responsible for the most cancer-associated death, has been widely accepted and appreciated. However, despite the tremendous progress made in the last decade in developing markers to identify CSCs, and assays to assess.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0501.1000202

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