| Literature DB >> 29968537 |
Junsong Chen1,2, Na Niu2, Jing Zhang3, Lisha Qi2,4, Weiwei Shen2,5, Krishna Vanaja Donkena2, Zhenqing Feng1, Jinsong Liu2.
Abstract
Polyploidy is associated with increased cell size and is commonly found in a subset of adult organs and blastomere stage of the human embryo. The polyploidy is formed through endoreplication or cell fusion to support the specific need of development including earliest embryogenesis. Recent data demonstrated that Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells (PGCCs) may have acquired an activated early embryonic-like program in response to oncogenic and therapeutic stress to generate reprogrammed cancer cells for drug resistance and metastasis. Targeting PGCCs may open up new opportunities for cancer therapy. Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.net.Entities:
Keywords: Polyploid giant cancer cells; blastomere-like cancer stem cells; cancer stem cells; cell fusion; endoreplication; reprogramming.
Year: 2019 PMID: 29968537 DOI: 10.2174/1568009618666180703154233
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Cancer Drug Targets ISSN: 1568-0096 Impact factor: 3.428