Metformin Represses Self-Renewal of the Human Breast Carcinoma Stem Cells via Inhibition of Estrogen Receptor-Mediated OCT4 Expression

• Ji-Won Jung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Won Jung, Sang-Bum Park

  Current address: Division of Intractable Diseases, Center for Biomedical Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Chungbuk, Korea

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Sang-Bum Park ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Won Jung, Sang-Bum Park

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Soo-Jin Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Min-Soo Seo,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• James E. Trosko,

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, College of Human Medicine, Center for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Kyung-Sun Kang

  * E-mail: kangpub@snu.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Adult Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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