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SUBMITTER: Wang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7407356 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Shunda S Li Yatong Y Xing Cheng C Ding Cheng C Zhang Hanyu H Chen Lixin L You Lei L Dai Menghua M Zhao Yupei Y
American journal of cancer research 20200701 7
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a fatal disease with high malignancy and difficult for early diagnosis. PC causes more than 400,000 patient deaths world widely and becomes the severe health problems. The tumor microenvironment (TME) is comprised of acellular stroma, pancreatic stellate cells, immune cells, and soluble factors. TME is maintained by continuous cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions. TME induced by the interaction among pancreatic cancer cells, epithelial cells and stromal cells is essen ...[more]