Figure 1.

Suggested pathways for the promotion of tumor survival with the aid of the bone marrow microenvironment. Blue compartment: Nucleus, Purple compartment: Cytoplasm, Cells in green: stromal cells, Cells in yellow: BM derived mesenchymal stem cell. Text in black within the nucleus indicates the transcriptional change of respective components/genes. The subsequent effect on respective protein production is indicated through arrows outside the nucleus in the cytoplasm (names of proteins in boxes).