The Metastatic Niche: Adapting the Foreign Soil

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 14.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Cancer. 2009 Apr;9(4):285–293. doi: 10.1038/nrc2621

Permissive microenvironments in development and disease
Physiological	Germ cells and gametogenesis⁹⁵
	Implantation of the blastocyst in the uterine endometrium^{93, 94}
	Maintenance of organ-specific stem cells in the adult such as neuronal stem cells⁹⁶
Pathological	Multiple Sclerosis⁹⁷
	Atherosclerotic plaques^{98, 99}
	Rheumatoid arthritis^{98, 100}