Sphere-forming culture enriches liver cancer stem cells and reveals Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 as a potential therapeutic target

Table 1 Comparison of Tumorigenic Capacity of Sphere-forming and Normal Cultured Huh7 Cells

		No. of Mice with Tumor Formation/Total No. of Mice with Cell Injection
Phonotypes	No. of cells injected	2 Weeks	4 Weeks	6 Weeks
Sphere-forming cells	5 × 10²	2/6	4/6	4/6
Sphere-forming cells	1 × 10³	4/6	6/6	6/6
Normal cultured cells	1 × 10⁴	0/6	0/6	0/6
Normal cultured cells	1 × 10⁵	0/6	0/6	0/6

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