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Mesenchymal stromal cell mutations and wound healing contribute to the etiology of desmoid tumors.
Cancer research - 1 Jan 2012
Carothers Adelaide M, Rizvi Hira, Hasson Rian M, Heit Yvonne I, Davids Jennifer S, Bertagnolli Monica M, Cho Nancy L
Abstract excerpt
Desmoid tumors are nonmalignant neoplasms of mesenchymal origin that mainly contain fibroblast lineage cells. These tumors often occur in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) coli who have germ line mutations in the APC gene. Given emerging data that has implicated multipotent mesencyhmal stromal cells (MSC) in the origin of mesenchymal tumors, we hypothesized that desmoid tumors may arise in...
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