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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7162
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-4
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Mesenchymal stem cells have been recently described to localize to breast carcinomas, where they integrate into the tumour-associated stroma. However, the involvement of mesenchymal stem cells (or their derivatives) in tumour pathophysiology has not been addressed. Here, we demonstrate that bone-marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells, when mixed with otherwise weakly metastatic human breast carcinoma cells, cause the cancer cells to increase their metastatic potency greatly when this cell mixture is introduced into a subcutaneous site and allowed to form a tumour xenograft. The breast cancer cells stimulate de novo secretion of the chemokine CCL5 (also called RANTES) from mesenchymal stem cells, which then acts in a paracrine fashion on the cancer cells to enhance their motility, invasion and metastasis. This enhanced metastatic ability is reversible and is dependent on CCL5 signalling through the chemokine receptor CCR5. Collectively, these data demonstrate that the tumour microenvironment facilitates metastatic spread by eliciting reversible changes in the phenotype of cancer cells.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1476-4687
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
449
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
557-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Chemokine CCL5, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Chemokines, CC, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Mesenchymal Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Neoplasm Invasiveness, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Paracrine Communication, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Receptors, CCR5, pubmed-meshheading:17914389-Stromal Cells
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Mesenchymal stem cells within tumour stroma promote breast cancer metastasis.
pubmed:affiliation
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't