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SUBMITTER: Takahashi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4496236 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takahashi Akiko A Ishii Genichiro G Neri Shinya S Yoshida Tatsuya T Hashimoto Hiroko H Suzuki Shigeki S Umemura Shigeki S Matsumoto Shingo S Yoh Kiyotaka K Niho Seiji S Goto Koichi K Ohmatsu Hironobu H Nagai Kanji K Gemma Akihiko A Ohe Yuichiro Y Ochiai Atsushi A
Oncotarget 20150401 11
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) expressing podoplanin (PDPN) are a favorable prognosticator in surgically resected small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Here we explore whether CAFs expressing PDPN influence proliferation of SCLC cells. Compared with control group (SCLC cells co-cultured with CAFs-Ctrl), numbers of SCLC cells co-cultured with CAFs overexpressing PDPN were decreased. Suppression of PDPN expression by shRNA in CAFs resulted in increased numbers of SCLC cells. In surgically resected ...[more]