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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (R01 awards CA190863 and CA193362), the American Cancer Society (Research Scholar Grant 127337-RSG-15-069-01-TBG), and the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (RP220639). We thank the Myeloma Tissue Bank at Houston Methodist Research Institute. This work was also supported by the Research Pathology Core, Flow Cytometry Core, and Translational Imaging Core at Houston Methodist Research Institute. We thank Dr. Shaefali P. Rodgers, Houston Methodist Research Institute, who edited the manuscript; and Ms. Rachael E. Whitehead, Houston Methodist Research Institute, who did the illustration for Fig. 2K.
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Cheng, F., Wang, Z., You, G. et al. Osteocyte-derived exosomes confer multiple myeloma resistance to chemotherapy through acquisition of cancer stem cell-like features. Leukemia 37, 1392–1396 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-023-01896-y
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