A mammary stem cell population identified and characterized in
late embryogenesis reveals similarities to human breast cancer
GROUP 3
LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEINS FROM EMBRYOS OF ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA: MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS, EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION.
Not exact matches
Davies and Lineweaver suggest that genes active in
embryogenesis and switched off
later may be reactivated because of damage, causing the accelerated cell division of these rogue cancer cells.
This phenomenon disappears in
later stages of
embryogenesis indicating the existence of an additional mechanism of lipid regulation in C. elegans.
Such cells provide a better model of early human
embryogenesis than conventional ESCs in
later stages of development.