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. 2014 Feb 6;7:14. doi: 10.1186/1756-8722-7-14

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Homing of MSCs to tumors. As a wound that doesn’t heal, tumor produces a continuous source of inflammatory mediators and causes aggregation of numerous inflammatory cells, which constitute an inflammatory microenvironment. Inflammatory mediators could attract MSCs from bone marrow or adjacent adipose tissues and these MSCs become a major component of tumor microenvironment.