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SUBMITTER: Morozov A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3820159 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morozov Alexei A Downey Robert J RJ Healey John J Moreira Andre L AL Lou Emil E Franceschino Anna A Dogan Yildirim Y Leung Roland R Edgar Mark M LaQuaglia Michael M Maki Robert G RG Moore Malcolm A S MA
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20101201 23
<h4>Purpose</h4>Recent evidence suggests that at least some sarcomas arise through aberrant differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), but MSCs have never been isolated directly from human sarcoma specimens.<h4>Experimental design</h4>We examined human sarcoma cell lines and primary adherent cultures derived from human sarcoma surgical samples for features of MSCs. We further characterized primary cultures as either benign or malignant by the presence of tumor-defining genetic lesions ...[more]