Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...
An international research team led by a Boston College professor has uncovered a drug and diet pairing that could fight a deadly brain cancer The international team combined a calorie-restricted diet ...
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular transdifferentiation program that enables epithelial cancer cells to acquire traits of high-grade malignancy, notably invasive and ...
Mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (MET) plays a relevant role in growth, survival, migration and tissue repair. Alterations in MET have been found in non-small-cell lung cancer and head and ...
This cohort included 91 patients (younger than 18 years) from two clinical trials: infantile fibrosarcoma (49), other soft tissue sarcomas or related mesenchymal tumors (41), and bone sarcoma (1).
Composition of the tumor microenvironment. Tumor tissue contains a heterogenous population of cells of epithelial and mesenchymal origin and also immune cells embedded in a protein-rich ...
Pancreatic cancer cells can be roughly divided into two main subtypes: epithelial and mesenchymal, based on their appearance and their molecular profile. "However, the tumor cells can change their ...