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Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Share Characteristics and Protumorigenic Activity with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
7 Jul 2017
Abstract excerpt
Abstract Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) have been suggested to originate from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC), but their relationship with MSCs is not clear. Here, we have isolated from primary human neuroblastoma tumors a population of αFAP- and FSP-1–expressing CAFs that share phenotypic and functional characteristics with bone marrow–derived MSCs (BM-MSC). Analysis of human neuroblastoma tumors also...
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