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SUBMITTER: Opperman KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6593350 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Opperman Khatora S KS Vandyke Kate K Clark Kimberley C KC Coulter Elizabeth A EA Hewett Duncan R DR Mrozik Krzysztof M KM Schwarz Nisha N Evdokiou Andreas A Croucher Peter I PI Psaltis Peter J PJ Noll Jacqueline E JE Zannettino Andrew Cw AC
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 20190624 8
Multiple myeloma is a fatal plasma cell malignancy that is reliant on the bone marrow microenvironment. The bone marrow is comprised of numerous cells of mesenchymal and hemopoietic origin. Of these, macrophages have been implicated to play a role in myeloma disease progression, angiogenesis, and drug resistance; however, the role of macrophages in myeloma disease establishment remains unknown. In this study, the antimyeloma efficacy of clodronate-liposome treatment, which globally and transient ...[more]