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Cancer stem cells

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Introduction to normal and cancer stem cell (CSCs) -- Leukemia CSCs -- Solid tumor CSCs -- Possible origin of CSCs -- Functional assays for CSCs -- Conversion of non-CSCs to CSCs -- Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) -- CSC plasticity and heterogeneity -- Signaling and epigenetic regulators of CSCs -- CSC niche -- Role of CSCs in therapeutic resistance -- Strategies for targeting CSCs.…”
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DNA methylation and stem cells

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Stem cells -- Pluripotent stem cells are extremely valuable for disease modeling and regenerative biology -- DNA methylation -- Stable epigenetic modification.…”
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Nuclear cloning, stem cells and epigenetic reprogramming

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Role of polycomb proteins in gene transcription, stem cell and human diseases

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Germ cells

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The germ cell cycle and the key epigenetic programming events in the germ cell lineage -- the oocyte and its properties -- epigenetic mechanism of germ cell specification in mice -- repression of the somatic programme, a key event during specification of germ cells -- epigenetic programming following specification of germ cells -- the relationship between germ cells and pluripotent stem cells.…”
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Epigenetic control by histone methylation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The diversity of covalent histone tail modifications for imparting epigenetic information -- Observations of robust histone modifications at silent chromatin regions -- The representation of repressive histone marks as indications of epigenetic plasticity in different cells -- Analysis of the profiles of normal and aberrant histone lysine methylation patterns, as they occur during the transition of an embryonic to a differentiated cell or in controlled self-renewal vs. pro-neoplastic or metastatic conditions -- Elucidation of these histone modification patterns for novel advances in stem cell research, nuclear reprogramming and cancer.…”
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Epigenetics and inheritance

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of epigenetics -- Epigenetics and stem cell biology -- Mechanisms of inheritable epigenetics -- Examples of the epigenetic code -- Genomic imprinting -- Imprinting as a paradigm for epigenetic gene regulation and inheritance -- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) definition -- Dutch hunger winter as an example of DOHaD -- IVF as a potential example of DOHaD -- IVF technology and imprinting disorders.…”
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Epigenetic biomarkers in cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Epigenetics -- levels of control -- The patient cancer journey-multiple impact points -- Key translational areas for epigenetics -- DNA methylation as cancer biomarker -- DNA methylation analysis methods -- Epigenetic gene silencing in malignant cells -- CpG methylation and clinical outcome -- Causes of aberrant DNA methylation in cancer -- Stem cell targets -- EZH2 as a potential anti-cancer target -- Epigenetic modification as drug targets -- Epigenetic therapies -- DNA methylation versus platinum resistance -- Phase II trial of Decitabine & Carboplatin -- Effects of low doses of DNA-demethylation agents -- Epigenetic therapies challenges.…”
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