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Cancer Stem Cells Connecting to Immunotherapy: Key Insights, Challenges, and Potential Treatment Opportunities

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TIM3+ breast cancer cells license immune evasion during micrometastasis outbreak

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Microbiota-Derived Natural Products Targeting Cancer Stem Cells: Inside the Gut Pharma Factory

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Induced pluripotent stem cells display a distinct set of MHC I-associated peptides shared by human cancers

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Forces at play: exploring factors affecting the cancer metastasis

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Epigenetic control of immunoevasion in cancer stem cells

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Cancer Stem Cells in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Narrative Review on Experimental Characteristics and Methodological Challenges

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Novel Protein-Based Vaccine against Self-Antigen Reduces the Formation of Sporadic Colon Adenomas in Mice

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Antitumor T-cell Homeostatic Activation Is Uncoupled from Homeostatic Inhibition by Checkpoint Blockade

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Immunometabolic defects of CD8+ T cells disrupt gut barrier integrity in people with HIV

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The Role of Cancer Stem Cells and Their Extracellular Vesicles in the Modulation of the Antitumor Immunity

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Insight into Cancer Immunity: MHCs, Immune Cells and Commensal Microbiota

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A Deeply Quiescent Subset of CML LSC depend on FAO yet Avoid Deleterious ROS by Suppressing Mitochondrial Complex I

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Immune privilege of skin stem cells: What do we know and what can we learn?

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Tissue origin of cytotoxic natural killer cells dictates their differential roles in mouse digit tip regeneration and progenitor cell survival

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Early immune evasion in colorectal cancer: interplay between stem cells and the tumor microenvironment

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Stress-induced sympathetic hyperactivation drives hair follicle necrosis to trigger autoimmunity

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Seeking Cellular Fitness and Immune Evasion: Autophagy in Pancreatic Carcinoma

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Effects of Immune Cells on Intestinal Stem Cells: Prospects for Therapeutic Targets

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Host-Related Factors in the Interplay among Inflammation, Immunity and Dormancy in Breast Cancer Recurrence and Prognosis: An Overview for Clinicians

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Cytokinesis Block Micronucleus Cytome (CBMN Cyt) Assay Biomarkers and Their Association With Radiation Sensitivity Phenotype in Prostate Cancer Cases and DNA Repair Gene hOGG1 (C1245G) Polymorphism

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The tumor-promoting effects of the adaptive immune system: a cause of hyperprogressive disease in cancer?

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From gut to glutes: The critical role of niche signals in the maintenance and renewal of adult stem cells

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From rest to repair: Safeguarding genomic integrity in quiescent cells

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Eavesdropping on the conversation between immune cells and the skin epithelium

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Bone niches in the regulation of tumour cell dormancy

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Neuronal NLRC5 regulates MHC class I expression in Neuro‐2a cells and also during hippocampal development

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Radiotherapeutic Strategies to Overcome Resistance of Breast Cancer Brain Metastases by Considering Immunogenic Aspects of Cancer Stem Cells

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Cancer Stem Cells and Stem Cell Tumors in Drosophila

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Under pressure: Stem cell–niche interactions coordinate tissue adaptation to inflammation

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Chemotherapy-induced immunological breast cancer dormancy: a new function for old drugs?

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Enhancing antigen presentation in cancer stem cells via peptide-based nanoparticles for effective immunotherapy

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Immunosuppressive Properties of Epidermal Keratinocytes Differ According to Their Immaturity Status

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Characterizing the Crosstalk of NCAPG with Tumor Microenvironment and Tumor Stemness in Stomach Adenocarcinoma

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Stem Cells Cycle toward Immune Surveillance

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Hair follicle stem cells and the collapse of self-tolerance in alopecia: the interplay of barrier function, the microbiome, and immunity

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Targeting the roots of myeloid malignancies with T cell receptors

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Rough neighborhood: Intricacies of cancer stem cells and infiltrating immune cell interaction in tumor microenvironment and potential in therapeutic targeting.

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Deconstructing inflammatory memory across tissue set points using cell circuit motifs

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Dormant Tumor Cells: Current Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Practice

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Diversifying Immune Function in the Skin

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The tumour ecology of quiescence: Niches across scales of complexity

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T cell and bacterial microbiota interaction at intestinal and skin epithelial interfaces

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Immune Privileges as a Result of Mutual Regulation of Immune and Stem Systems

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Dormancy: There and Back Again

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Autophagy Blockage Up-Regulates HLA-Class-I Molecule Expression in Lung Cancer and Enhances Anti-PD-L1 Immunotherapy Efficacy

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BCL7B, a SWI/SNF complex subunit, orchestrates cancer immunity and stemness

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Quiescence and aging of melanocyte stem cells and a novel association with programmed death-ligand 1

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The sleeping threat: targeting cancer dormancy to transform metastasis therapy

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Glucocorticoid receptor: a harmonizer of cellular plasticity in breast cancer—directs the road towards therapy resistance, metastatic progression and recurrence

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Immune modulatory stem cells represent a significant component of the immune system

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Characteristic, Regulation and Targeting Strategies of Cancer Stem Cells and Their Niche in Digestive System Tumors

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Epigenomic regulation of stemness contributes to the low immunogenicity of the most mutated human cancer

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Strong Immune Privileges of MSC and Other Nes-GFP + Progenitors in Bone Marrow of Transgenic Mice

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Stem cell-based therapeutic strategies for down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease

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Wnt3a-expressing cancer stem cells impair CD8 + TRM function, contributing to immunotherapy resistance in Melanoma

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Purification and Functional Characterization of CD34-Expressing Cell Subsets Following Ex Vivo Expansion of Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Endothelial Colony-Forming Cells

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Genetic Screening for Novel Regulators of Immune Checkpoint Molecules

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Hair follicle stem cell fate supports distinct clinical endotypes in hidradenitis suppurativa

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