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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ruprecht Kuner
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-23066 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Gottschling Sandra S Granzow Martin M Kuner Ruprecht R Jauch Anna A Herpel Esther E Xu Elizabeth Chang EC Muley Thomas T Schnabel Philipp A PA Herth Felix J F FJ Meister Michael M
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20130105 1
<h4>Background</h4>Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) play a vital role in lung cancer initiation and progression. Although mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are considered progenitor cells of fibroblasts and show cancer modulating abilities themselves, analyses on their presence and properties in lung cancer are lacking so far.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a comparative molecular and functional analysis of MSC derived from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and corresponding normal lung tissue (NLT) ...[more]