Sonic Hedgehog Pathway Is Essential for Maintenance of Cancer Stem-Like Cells in Human Gastric Cancer

• Zhou Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Song, Wen Yue

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

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• Wen Yue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Song, Wen Yue

  Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Bo Wei,

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

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• Ning Wang,

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

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• Tao Li,

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

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• Lidong Guan,

  Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Shuangshuang Shi,

  Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Quan Zeng,

  Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Xuetao Pei ,

  * E-mail: peixt@nic.bmi.ac.cn (XP); chenlinbj@vip.sina.com (LC)

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Lin Chen

  * E-mail: peixt@nic.bmi.ac.cn (XP); chenlinbj@vip.sina.com (LC)

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

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