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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Lett. 2008 Dec 17;279(2):119–125. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.10.039

Fig 1.

Fig 1

Melanoma stem-like cells may appear after mutations occurred in melanocytes stem cells, or progenitor cells. They may also be the results of transformation in differentiated cells. They are responsible for tumor growth and metastasis.