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Spontaneous cancer-stromal cell fusion as a mechanism of prostate cancer androgen-independent progression.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Wang Ruoxiang, Sun Xiaojuan, Wang Christopher Y, Hu Peizhen, Chu Chia-Yi, Liu Shurong, Zhau Haiyen E, Chung Leland W K
Abstract excerpt
We have previously shown that human prostate cancer cells are capable of acquiring malignant attributes through interaction with stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment, while the interacting stromal cells can also become affected with both phenotypic and genotypic alterations. This study used a co-culture model to investigate the mechanism underlying the co-evolution of cancer and stromal cells. Red...
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