Giorgio Stassi

Research interests

Publications

• Lipid Droplets: A New Player in Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells Unveiled by Spectroscopic Imaging

  Stem Cells · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/stem.1837

• CD44v6 Is a Marker of Constitutive and Reprogrammed Cancer Stem Cells Driving Colon Cancer Metastasis

  Cell stem cell · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2014.01.009

• Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells: From the Crypt to the Clinic

  Cell stem cell · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2014.11.012

• TAZ is required for metastatic activity and chemoresistance of breast cancer stem cells

  Oncogene · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2014.5

• Breast cancer stem cells rely on fermentative glycolysis and are sensitive to 2-deoxyglucose treatment

  Cell Death and Disease · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2014.285

• Human NK Cells Selective Targeting of Colon Cancer–Initiating Cells: A Role for Natural Cytotoxicity Receptors and MHC Class I Molecules

  The Journal of Immunology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1201542

• Tumor and its microenvironment: A synergistic interplay

  Seminars in Cancer Biology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2013.08.007

• Cancer stem cell definitions and terminology: the devil is in the details

  Nature reviews. Cancer · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3368

• Differentiation, phenotype, and function of interleukin-17–producing human Vγ9Vδ2 T cells

  Blood · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2011-01-331298

• Colon Cancer Stem Cells: Promise of Targeted Therapy

  Gastroenterology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2009.12.063

• In vivo manipulation of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells with zoledronate and low-dose interleukin-2 for immunotherapy of advanced breast cancer patients

  Clinical & Experimental Immunology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04167.x

• Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 Induces Differentiation of Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells and Increases Their Response to Chemotherapy in Mice

  Gastroenterology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2010.10.005

• Tumour vascularization via endothelial differentiation of glioblastoma stem-like cells

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09557

• Wnt activity defines colon cancer stem cells and is regulated by the microenvironment

  Nature Cell Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb2048

• Tumorigenic and Metastatic Activity of Human Thyroid Cancer Stem Cells

  Cancer Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-10-1994

• Breast Cancer Cell Lines Contain Functional Cancer Stem Cells with Metastatic Capacity and a Distinct Molecular Signature

  Cancer Research · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-2741

• Efficient Killing of Human Colon Cancer Stem Cells by γδ T Lymphocytes

  The Journal of Immunology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.0804288

• Apoptosis resistance in epithelial tumors is mediated by tumor-cell-derived interleukin-4

  Cell Death and Differentiation · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cdd.4402305

• Cancer Stem Cell Analysis and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme

  Clinical Cancer Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-08-0644

• Single-cell cloning of colon cancer stem cells reveals a multi-lineage differentiation capacity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805706105

• Colon Cancer Stem Cells Dictate Tumor Growth and Resist Cell Death by Production of Interleukin-4

  Cell stem cell · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2007.08.001

• Potential Involvement of Fas and Its Ligand in the Pathogenesis of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

  Science · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.275.5302.960

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