1 Cancer Stem Cells: A Revisitation of the "Anaplasia"
Concept ...................................................... 1
Roberto Scatena
2 Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells: New Insights .............. 17
Tora Kondo
3 Molecular Biology of Cancer Stem Cells ...................... 33
Oswaldo Keith Okamoto
4 Biomarkers of Cancer Stem Cells ............................. 45
Jun Dou and Ning Gu
5 Cancer Stem Cells and the Microenvironment .................. 69
Alfonso Colombatti, Carla Danussi, Eliana Pivetta, and
Paola Spessotto
6 Leukemia Stem Cells ......................................... 85
Steven W. Lane and David A. Williams
7 Cancer Stem Cells and the Central Nervous System ........... 105
Serdar Korur, Maria Maddalena Lino, and Adrian Merlo
8 Cancer Stem Cells and Glioblastoma Multiforme:
Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects .................... 123
Akio Soeda, Mark E. Shaffrey, and Deric M. Park
9 Breast Cancer Stem Cells ................................... 141
Nuria Rodríguez Salas, Enrique González González, and
Carlos Gamallo Amat
10 Colon Cancer Stem Cells .................................... 155
Ugo Testa
11 Liver Tumor-Initiating Cells/Cancer Stem Cells: Past
Studies, Current Status, and Future Perspectives ........... 181
Kwan Ho Tang, Stephanie Ma, and Xin-Yuan Guan
12 Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells ............................... 197
Erica N. Proctor and Diane M. Simeone
13 Cancer Stem Cells and Renal Carcinoma ...................... 211
Benedetta Bussolati and Giovanni Camussi
14 Cancer Stem Cells: Proteomic Approaches for New
Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers ............. 221
Patrizia Bottoni, Bruno Giardina, and Roberto Scatena
15 Cancer Stem Cells: An Innovative Therapeutic Approach ...... 239
Roberto Scatena, Patrizia Bottoni, Alessandro Pontoglio,
Salvatore Scarà, and Bruno Giardina
16 Cancer Stem Cell and ATP-Binding Cassette: Which Role in
Chemoresistance? ........................................... 267
Andrea Silvestrini, Elisabetta Meucci, Giuseppe Ettore
Martorana, Bruno Giardina, and Alvaro Mordente
17 Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells: Biological and Clinical
Interrelationships ......................................... 289
Cinzia Bagalà and Carlo Barone
18 Immunomodulatory Functions of Cancer Stem Cells ............ 301
Tobias Schatten, Jennifer Y. Lin, and Markus H. Frank
Index ......................................................... 333
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