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SUBMITTER: Parker Kerrigan BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5410175 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parker Kerrigan Brittany C BC Shimizu Yuzaburo Y Andreeff Michael M Lang Frederick F FF
Cytotherapy 20170221 4
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are a type of adult stem cell that has been exploited for the treatment of a variety of diseases, including cancer. In particular, MSCs have been studied extensively for their ability to treat glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and deadly form of brain cancer in adults. MSCs are attractive therapeutics because they can be obtained relatively easily from patients, are capable of being expanded numerically in vitro, can be easily engineered and are inherently capa ...[more]