Scalable Culture Strategies for the Expansion of Patient-Derived Cancer Stem Cell Lines

• Main Authors: Ana Teresa Serra (Author), Margarida Serra (Author), Ana Carina Silva (Author), Tamara Brckalo (Author), Anita Seshire (Author), Catarina Brito (Author), Michael Wolf (Author), Paula M. Alves (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have recently raised great interest as a promising biological system for designing effective cancer therapies. The scarcity of CSCs in vivo and the consequent low numbers obtained from biopsies represent a major hurdle to the development of such strategies. It is therefore n...