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Human hair follicle and interfollicular keratinocyte reactivity to mouse HPV16-transformed cells: an in vitro study.
Oncology reports - 1 Jul 2008
Smetana Karel, Dvoránková Barbora, Lacina Lukás, Cada Zdenek, Vonka Vladimír
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The role of stem cells in cancer formation and spreading has been established. As with normal tissue, the cancer stem cells need a special microenvironment to support their growth. This microenvironment may be represented by the tumor stroma. One of the possible ways of tumor stromal formation is the epithelial-mesenchymal transition of tumor epithelium. Following this mechanism, stromal cells must share the...
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