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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Sandra Ghayad
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-5321 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Ghayad Sandra E SE Rammal Ghina G Ghamloush Farah F Basma Hussein H Nasr Rihab R Diab-Assaf Mona M Chelala Claude C Saab Raya R
Scientific reports 20161117
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is an aggressive childhood soft tissue tumor, which exists in oncoprotein PAX-FOXO1 fusion positive and fusion negative subtypes, with the fusion-positive RMS being characterized by a more aggressive clinical behavior. Exosomes are small membranous vesicles secreted into body fluids by multiple cell types, including tumor cells, and have been implicated in metastatic progression through paracrine signaling. We characterized exosomes secreted by a panel of 5 RMS cell lines. ...[more]