The beta-catenin/TCF-4 complex imposes a crypt progenitor phenotype on colorectal cancer cells.
Marc van de Wetering,Elena Sancho,Cornelis Verweij,Wim de Lau,Irma Oving,Adam Hurlstone,Karin van der Horn,Eduard Batlle,Damien Coudreuse,Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis,Menno Tjon-Pon-Fong,Petra Moerer,Maaike van den Born,Gwen Soete,Steven T. Pals,Martin Eilers,René H. Medema,Hans Clevers +17 more
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The β-catenin/TCF-4 complex constitutes the master switch that controls proliferation versus differentiation in healthy and malignant intestinal epithelial cells.About:
This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2002-10-18 and is currently open access. It has received 1972 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cellular differentiation & Wnt signaling pathway.read more
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Cancer Genome Landscapes
Bert Vogelstein,Nickolas Papadopoulos,Victor E. Velculescu,Shibin Zhou,Luis A. Diaz,Kenneth W. Kinzler +5 more
TL;DR: This work has revealed the genomic landscapes of common forms of human cancer, which consists of a small number of “mountains” (genes altered in a high percentage of tumors) and a much larger number of "hills" (Genes altered infrequently).
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Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in development and disease.
TL;DR: A remarkable interdisciplinary effort has unraveled the WNT (Wingless and INT-1) signal transduction cascade over the last two decades, finding that Germline mutations in the Wnt pathway cause several hereditary diseases, and somatic mutations are associated with cancer of the intestine and a variety of other tissues.
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Identification of stem cells in small intestine and colon by marker gene Lgr5
Nick Barker,Johan H. van Es,Jeroen Kuipers,Pekka Kujala,Maaike van den Born,Miranda Cozijnsen,Andrea Haegebarth,Jeroen Korving,Harry Begthel,Peter J. Peters,Hans Clevers +10 more
TL;DR: The expression pattern of Lgr5 suggests that it marks stem cells in multiple adult tissues and cancers, suggesting that it represents the stem cell of the small intestine and colon.
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Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer
Tannishtha Reya,Hans Clevers +1 more
TL;DR: Insights gained from understanding how the Wnt pathway is integrally involved in both stem cell and cancer cell maintenance and growth in the intestinal, epidermal and haematopoietic systems may serve as a paradigm for understanding the dual nature of self-renewal signals.
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Long-term expansion of epithelial organoids from human colon, adenoma, adenocarcinoma, and Barrett's epithelium.
Toshiro Sato,Daniel E. Stange,Marc Ferrante,Marc Ferrante,Robert G.J. Vries,Johan H. van Es,Stieneke van den Brink,Winan J. van Houdt,Apollo Pronk,Joost van Gorp,Peter D. Siersema,Hans Clevers +11 more
TL;DR: A technology that can be used to study infected, inflammatory, or neoplastic tissues from the human gastrointestinal tract is developed that might have applications in regenerative biology through ex vivo expansion of the intestinal epithelia.
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Lessons from Hereditary Colorectal Cancer
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Activation of β-Catenin-Tcf Signaling in Colon Cancer by Mutations in β-Catenin or APC
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