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SUBMITTER: Oh HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5445202 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oh Hyeon Jeong HJ Bae Jeong Mo JM Wen Xian-Yu XY Cho Nam-Yun NY Kim Jung Ho JH Kang Gyeong Hoon GH
Journal of pathology and translational medicine 20170412 3
<h4>Background</h4>Tumor microenvironment has recently drawn attention in that it is related with tumor prognosis. Cancer-associated fibroblast also plays a critical role in cancer invasiveness and progression in colorectal cancers. Periostin (POSTN), originally identified to be expressed in osteoblasts and osteoblast-derived cells, is expressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts in several tissue types of cancer. Recent studies suggest an association between stromal overexpression of POSTN and po ...[more]