Cancer stem cells: advances in knowledge and implications for cancer therapy

X Chu, W Tian, J Ning, G **ao, Y Zhou… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a small subset of cells in tumors that are characterized by self-
renewal and continuous proliferation, lead to tumorigenesis, metastasis, and maintain tumor …

Molecular pathogenesis and systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, R Pinyol, RK Kelley, A El-Khoueiry… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the most prevalent and deadliest cancers.
The poor outcome associated with HCC is dramatically changing due to the advent of …

Cancer stem cells in hepatocellular carcinoma—from origin to clinical implications

TKW Lee, XY Guan, S Ma - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive disease with a poor clinical outcome. The
cancer stem cell (CSC) model states that tumour growth is powered by a subset of tumour …

Targeted therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

A Huang, XR Yang, WY Chung, AR Dennison… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
The last 3 years have seen the emergence of promising targeted therapies for the treatment
of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Sorafenib has been the mainstay of treatment for a …

Tumour evolution in hepatocellular carcinoma

AJ Craig, J Von Felden, T Garcia-Lezana… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of primary liver cancer, typically
develops on the background of chronic liver disease and is an aggressive disease with …

Single-cell RNA sequencing shows the immunosuppressive landscape and tumor heterogeneity of HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

DWH Ho, YM Tsui, LK Chan, KMF Sze, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Interaction between tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment is
important in cancer development. Immune cells interact with the tumor cells to shape this …

Multiregional single-cell dissection of tumor and immune cells reveals stable lock-and-key features in liver cancer

L Ma, S Heinrich, L Wang, FL Keggenhoff… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity may result from the evolution of tumor cells and their continuous
interactions with the tumor microenvironment which collectively drives tumorigenesis …

CellMarker: a manually curated resource of cell markers in human and mouse

X Zhang, Y Lan, J Xu, F Quan, E Zhao… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
One of the most fundamental questions in biology is what types of cells form different tissues
and organs in a functionally coordinated fashion. Larger-scale single-cell sequencing and …

The epigenetic basis of cellular heterogeneity

B Carter, K Zhao - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing-based methods for profiling gene transcript levels have revealed
substantial heterogeneity in expression levels among morphologically indistinguishable …

Comprehensive analysis of spatial architecture in primary liver cancer

R Wu, W Guo, X Qiu, S Wang, C Sui, Q Lian, J Wu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Heterogeneity is the major challenge for cancer prevention and therapy. Here, we first
constructed high-resolution spatial transcriptomes of primary liver cancers (PLCs) containing …