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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Andrea Richardson
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-8977 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Karnoub Antoine E AE Dash Ajeeta B AB Vo Annie P AP Sullivan Andrew A Brooks Mary W MW Bell George W GW Richardson Andrea L AL Polyak Kornelia K Tubo Ross R Weinberg Robert A RA
Nature 20071001 7162
Mesenchymal stem cells have been recently described to localize to breast carcinomas, where they integrate into the tumour-associated stroma. However, the involvement of mesenchymal stem cells (or their derivatives) in tumour pathophysiology has not been addressed. Here, we demonstrate that bone-marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells, when mixed with otherwise weakly metastatic human breast carcinoma cells, cause the cancer cells to increase their metastatic potency greatly when this cell m ...[more]