Stem cells and cancer of the stomach and intestine

Lgr5+ve Stem Cells Drive Self-Renewal in the Stomach and Build Long-Lived Gastric Units In Vitro

(2010) Nick Barker et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Wnt activity defines colon cancer stem cells and is regulated by the microenvironment

(2010) Louis Vermeulen et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of Stem Cell Self-Renewal

(2009) He Shenghui et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Heterogeneity in Cancer: Cancer Stem Cells versus Clonal Evolution

(2009) Mark Shackleton et al.   CELL

Prominin-1/CD133 Marks Stem Cells and Early Progenitors in Mouse Small Intestine

(2009) Hugo J. Snippert et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Identification of Gastric Cancer Stem Cells Using the Cell Surface Marker CD44

(2009) Shigeo Takaishi et al.   STEM CELLS

A Stochastic Model for Cancer Stem Cell Origin in Metastatic Colon Cancer

(2008) C. Odoux et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

Cancer induction by restriction of oncogene expression to the stem cell compartment

(2008) María Pérez-Caro et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Activated macrophages promote Wnt signalling through tumour necrosis factor-α in gastric tumour cells

(2008) Keisuke Oguma et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Prominin 1 marks intestinal stem cells that are susceptible to neoplastic transformation

(2008) Liqin Zhu et al.   NATURE

Crypt stem cells as the cells-of-origin of intestinal cancer

(2008) Nick Barker et al.   NATURE

Efficient tumour formation by single human melanoma cells

(2008) Elsa Quintana et al.   NATURE

Bmi1 is expressed in vivo in intestinal stem cells

(2008) Eugenio Sangiorgi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Helicobacter pylori evolution during progression from chronic atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer and its impact on gastric stem cells

(2008) M. Giannakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanisms of Field Cancerization in the Human Stomach: The Expansion and Spread of Mutated Gastric Stem Cells

(2007) Stuart A.C. McDonald et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY