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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 674-684Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.12.001
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- NIH (NCI) [CA172045]
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Neoplastic transformation requires changes in cellular identity. Emerging evidence increasingly points to cellular reprogramming, a process during which fully differentiated and functional cells lose aspects of their identity while gaining progenitor characteristics, as a critical early step during cancer initiation. This cell identity crisis persists even at the malignant stage in certain cancers, suggesting that reactivation of progenitor functions supports tumorigenicity. Here, we review recent findings that establish the essential role of cellular reprogramming during neoplastic transformation and the major players involved in it with a special emphasis on pancreatic cancer.
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