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Author Spotlight: Analyzing Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Murine Hematological Malignancies
Published on: November 10, 2023
Could cancer initiate from bone marrow progenitors?
Hmed Ben Nasr1, Serria Turky Hammami1, Khaled Zeghal1
1Dept. of Pharmacology, Medicine Faculty, Sfax University, Rue Magida Boulila, Sfax, Tunisia.
Background:
Defining cancer stem cells and their origins is of much controversy,and constitutes a challenged knockout for cell targeting- anticancer drugs. Herein,we put forward a hypothetic model for cancer stem cells initiation from bone marrow stem cells. These later, will differentiate into an ancestral progenitor that activates a memorial program - the black box cassette- that is responsible of abnormal neo-organogenesis in the form of tumors and metastases. To approve this model, we assume that characterizing and investigating the most primitive forms of the bone marrow progenitors is required; both inside their niche and in circulation of cancer patients.
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