Tumor Cells Positive and Negative for the Common Cancer Stem Cell Markers Are Capable of Initiating Tumor Growth and Generating Both Progenies

• Sheng-Dong Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan

  * E-mail: huangsd@smmu.edu.cn (SDH); zhiyunxu@smmu.edu.cn (ZYX)

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Yang Yuan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Hao Tang,

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Xiao-Hong Liu,

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Chuan-Gang Fu,

  Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• He-Zhong Cheng,

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Jian-Wei Bi,

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Yong-Wei Yu,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• De-Jun Gong,

  Affiliation Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Wei Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Jie Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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• Zhi-Yun Xu

  * E-mail: huangsd@smmu.edu.cn (SDH); zhiyunxu@smmu.edu.cn (ZYX)

  Affiliations Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

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