Effect of CD44 Binding Peptide Conjugated to an Engineered Inert Matrix on Maintenance of Breast Cancer Stem Cells and Tumorsphere Formation

• Xiaoming Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoming Yang, Samaneh K. Sarvestani

  Affiliations Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, Dorn Research Institute, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Samaneh K. Sarvestani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoming Yang, Samaneh K. Sarvestani

  Affiliation Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Seyedsina Moeinzadeh,

  Affiliation Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Xuezhong He,

  Affiliation Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Esmaiel Jabbari

  * E-mail: jabbari@engr.sc.edu

  Affiliation Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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