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Eukaryotic cell encystation and cancer cell dormancy: is a greater devil veiled in the details of a lesser evil?

Abdul Mannan Baig, Naveed Ahmed Khan and Farhat Abbas
Cancer Biology & Medicine March 2015, 12 (1) 64-67; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7497/j.issn.2095-3941.2014.0028

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    (A) Cyst of Acanthamoeba castellanii exhibiting double-walled structure; (B) Induced cancer stem cells in lung carcinoma. During maturation of these cells, mitochondria appeared to play a key role in wall development, as these organelles assumed a centripetal layout helping to delimit border.

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    Studying the crosstalks of eukaryotic cells with immune cells and identification of cytokines and/or mediators can help us understand the induction mechanism of microenvironment factors like hypoxia in the causation of dormancy.

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    Row of LNCaP (above) and PC3 (below). (A) Induction of dormancy by the same stimuli that provoke encystation in Eukaryotic cells; (B) Cancer cells undergoing dormancy; (C) Dormant state established; (D) Revival from dormancy, by the same stimuli that cause excystation in eukaryotic cells.

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