Skip to main content
. 2016 Jun 30;8(7):199. doi: 10.3390/toxins8070199

Table 1.

Phenotypic markers for cancer stem cell identification in various tissues.

Tumor CSC Marker References
Leukemia CD34+/CD38 [7]
Breast CD24/CD44+/Lineage/ALDH1+ [8,9]
Prostate CD44+/CD133+/Integrin α2β1high [10,17,18]
Brain CD133+ [11]
Stomach CD44+/CD133+ [19,20,21,22]
Pancreas CD24+/CD44+/CD133+/ESA+ [23,24,25]
Colon CD44+/CD133+/ALDH1+ [26,27]
Ovary CD133+/ALDH1+ [28,29]
Lung CD133+ [30,31,32]
Liver CD90+ [33,34,35]

CSC: cancer stem cell; CD24: heat stable antigen; CD34: hematopoietic progenitor cell antigen; CD38: cyclic ADP ribose hydrolase; CD44: hyaluronate receptor; CD90: Thy-1; CD133: prominin-1; ALDH1: aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1; ESA: epithelial surface antigen.