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. 2017 Jan 1;8(1):85–96. doi: 10.7150/jca.16792

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mechanism of mesenchymal stem cell action in anticancer therapies. The primary role of MSCs in anticancer therapies lies in their abilities to change normal fibroblasts into tumor-associated fibroblasts, transition into CAFs, control the EMT, replace host cells, remodel the ECM, regulate the immune system, act in a paracrine fashion and establish cell-cell contacts.