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Abnormalities of bone marrow mesenchymal cells in multiple myeloma patients.
Cancer - 1 Apr 2001
Wallace S R, Oken M M, Lunetta K L, Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Masellis A M
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BACKGROUND: The importance of the bone marrow microenvironment in multiple myeloma is receiving increasing attention. Recent studies have suggested the importance of cytokine production and cell-cell contact by bone marrow stromal cells in the survival of myeloma cells. METHODS: In the current study, the authors examined bone marrow mesenchymal progenitor cell (MPC) cultures derived from eight multiple myeloma...
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