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. 2017 Jul 21;18(7):1586. doi: 10.3390/ijms18071586

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Our co-culture experiments have shown that TGF-β plays an important role in the interaction between cancer cells and MSCs. Our data show that in the long term, WHCO1 and MDA MB 231 cancer cell exposed-Wharton’s Jelly derived-MSCs differentiate into tumor associated fibroblasts (TAFs) through a TGF-β/Smad-mediated process.