Curcumin suppresses crosstalk between colon cancer stem cells and stromal fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment: potential role of EMT.

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Published in PLoS One on September 19, 2014

Authors

Constanze Buhrmann1, Patricia Kraehe1, Cora Lueders2, Parviz Shayan3, Ajay Goel4, Mehdi Shakibaei1

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Anatomy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
2: German Heart Institute Berlin, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Laboratory for Tissue Engineering, Berlin, Germany.
3: Investigating Institute of Molecular Biological System Transfer, Tehran, Iran; Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4: Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Laboratory, Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor Research Institute and Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.

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