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. 2021 Jan 25;1:603160. doi: 10.3389/froh.2020.603160

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Different mechanisms employed by CSCs for therapeutic resistance (adapted from [184]). CSCs adapt themselves so they can survive the common therapeutic strategies such as chemo- and radiotherapy used to treat oral cancer. These adaptations involve developing mechanisms such as epigenetic modifications, alterations in transport of drug, EMT, stemness, tumor microenvironment, signaling pathways and resistance to apoptosis.