Side-population Cells Derived from Non-tumorigenic Rat Endometrial Cells are a Candidate Cell of Origin for Malignant Endometrial Tumors

Kiyoko Kato^1*, Soshi Kusunoki¹, Tetsunori Inagaki¹, Nurisimangul Yusuf¹, Hitomi Okabe¹, Shin Suga¹, Hiroshi Kaneda¹, Yasuhisa Terao¹, Takahiro Arima², Kiyomi Tsukimori³ and Satoru Takeda¹

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Hongo 2-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8431, Japan

²Department of Informative Genetics, Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

³Department of Obstetrics, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, Tojinmachi 2-5-1, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0063, Fukuoka, Japan