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Preclinical Models in Colorectal Cancer Drug Discovery
Currently, colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide despite advances in medical therapies of CRC. Therefore, appropriate animal models of CRC are urgently...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Preclinical Models in Colorectal Cancer Drug Discovery
Currently, colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide despite advances in medical therapies of CRC. Therefore, appropriate animal models of CRC are urgently...
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Cancer Stem Cells in Therapy Resistance of Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, and therapy resistance is one of the most common reasons for treatment failure in CRC. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a min...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Cancer Stem Cells in Therapy Resistance of Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, and therapy resistance is one of the most common reasons for treatment failure in CRC. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a mi...
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Cancer Stem Cells in Patient Survival and Therapies in Cancer
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a subpopulation of cancer cells and responsible for stemness properties of cancer cell. It is regarded as one of the major causes of cancer formation, recurrence, and metastasis. R...
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Open AccessReadout-segmented echo-planar diffusion-weighted MR for the evaluation of aggressive characteristics of rectal cancer
To evaluate whether aggressive characteristics of rectal cancer can be predicted by the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) obtained using readout-segmented echo-planar imaging (rs-EPI) diffusion-weighted mag...
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Open AccessThe prognostic factors and multiple biomarkers in young patients with colorectal cancer
The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in young patients (≤50 years of age) appears to be increasing. However, their clinicopathological characteristics and survival are controversial. Likewise, the biomarke...
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Is chronic feeding of low dose alcohol hepatotoxic or genotoxic?: A time course study in mice
Chronic intake of alcohol is known to be the third most harmful risk factor for some serious diseases including cancer. Though chronic abuse of alcohol in high dose is reported to cause progressive damage and ...
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Knockdown of MMP-7 inhibits cell proliferation and enhances sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil and X-ray irradiation in colon cancer cells
The role of matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) in the pathogenesis of colon cancer is not understood thoroughly. Previous studies from our group have shown that the expression levels of MMP-7 were highly eleva...
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Anaphylactic shock and lethal anaphylaxis caused by compound amino acid solution, a nutritional treatment widely used in China
Compound amino acid solution (CAAS) is a large class of solution of amino acids’ mixture and was widely used in China. Its extensive nutritional treatment was accompanied by a substantial incidence of adverse ...
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Correlation of SATB1 overexpression with the progression of human rectal cancer
To date, the association between special AT-rich sequence-binding protein 1 (SATB1) and colorectal cancer (CRC) has not been reported. This study was aimed at investigating the expression and potential role of...