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Suicide Gene-Engineered Stromal Cells Reveal a Dynamic Regulation of Cancer Metastasis.
Scientific reports - 19 Feb 2016
Shen Keyue, Luk Samantha, Elman Jessica, Murray Ryan, Mukundan Shilpaa, Parekkadan Biju
Abstract excerpt
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a major cancer-promoting component in the tumor microenvironment (TME). The dynamic role of human CAFs in cancer progression has been ill-defined because human CAFs lack a unique marker needed for a cell-specific, promoter-driven knockout model. Here, we developed an engineered human CAF cell line with an inducible suicide gene to enable selective in vivo elimination of...
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