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Nature Medicine 13, 1289 - 1291 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1107-1289
A MSC-ing link in metastasis?
Douglas R Hurst1 & Danny R Welch1
- Danny R. Welch is Leonard H. Robinson Professor and Douglas R. Hurst is an investigator in the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1670 University Blvd. VH-G019A, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0019, USA. e-mail: danwelch@uab.edu
Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells promote the dissemination of neoplastic cells in a mouse model of breast cancer. The findings sound a cautionary note for anticancer therapies that rely on these cells and provoke a re-evaluation of how metastases form.
