Bone marrow-infiltrating human neuroblastoma cells express high levels of calprotectin and HLA-G proteins.

Metastases in the bone marrow (BM) are grim prognostic factors in patients with neuroblastoma (NB). In spite of extensive analysis of primary tumor cells from high- and low-risk NB patients, a characterization of freshly isolated BM-infiltrating metastatic NB cells is still lacking. Our aim was to i...

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Main Authors: Fabio Morandi, Paola Scaruffi, Fabio Gallo, Sara Stigliani, Stefano Moretti, Stefano Bonassi, Claudio Gambini, Katia Mazzocco, Paolo Fardin, Riccardo Haupt, Giampaolo Arcamone, Italian Cooperative Group for Neuroblastoma, Vito Pistoia, Gian Paolo Tonini, Maria Valeria Corrias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22253825/pdf/?tool=EBI