Ezrin-expressing lung adenocarcinoma cells and podoplanin-positive fibroblasts form a malignant microenvironment
2015
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Cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) together create the tumor microenvironment, which affects malignant behavior. Lung adenocarcinomas with CAFs expressing podoplanin (PDPN) are clinically aggressive, but the molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenon has not been established. So we identified the characteristic immunophenotype of lung adenocarcinoma cells coexisting with PDPN-expressing CAFs (PDPN-CAFs) and examined how it relates to an aggressive clinicopathological outcome.
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