colonosphere

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colonosphere (plural colonospheres)

(pathology) A colonic spheroid
- 2015 April 14, Hao Liu et al., “Overexpression of PP2A inhibitor SET oncoprotein is associated with tumor progression and poor prognosis in human non-small cell lung cancer”, in Oncotarget‎^[1], volume 6:
  It has been shown that SET knockdown was shown to negatively affect tumorigenesis in CML [ 32 ], and silence of SET with siRNAs in CRC cell lines induced a decrease in the cell growth and colonosphere formation ability in both number and size of the spheres formed [ 25 ].