In this project we investigate wide array of cancers: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, breast cancer, melanoma, and gastric cancers This project has two prongs: One, where we use a functional approach to identify the """"""""best"""""""" cancer stem cell usiong all previously described methodes and markers and subjecting them to a rigorous tesing methodology. Once identified we will try to target these cells via the specific marker in attempt to generate novel cancer therapy. Two, using a novel methodology we try to isolate the self renwing cells via asymmetric division in various cancers and determine whether these are the """"""""fitest"""""""" cancer stem cells
| Xin, Hong-Wu; Ambe, Chenwi M; Miller, Tyler C et al. (2016) Liver Label Retaining Cancer Cells Are Relatively Resistant to the Reported Anti-Cancer Stem Cell Drug Metformin. J Cancer 7:1142-51 |
| Xin, Hong-Wu; Ambe, Chenwi M; Ray, Satyajit et al. (2013) Wnt and the cancer niche: paracrine interactions with gastrointestinal cancer cells undergoing asymmetric cell division. J Cancer 4:447-57 |
| Ray, Satyajit; Langan, Russell C; Mullinax, John E et al. (2012) Establishment of human ultra-low passage colorectal cancer cell lines using spheroids from fresh surgical specimens suitable for in vitro and in vivo studies. J Cancer 3:196-206 |
| Mullinax, John E; Allins, Alexander; Avital, Itzhak (2011) Laparoscopic appendectomy for Amyand's hernia: a modern approach to a historic diagnosis. J Gastrointest Surg 15:533-5 |
| Avital, Itzhak (2011) Regional chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. J Surg Oncol 104:453 |
