JOURNAL OF BASIC AND CLINICAL HEALTH SCIENCES, cilt.3, sa.2, ss.83-88, 2019 (ESCI)
Objectives: Metastasis is a multi-step process which leads the tumor cells to escape from primer tumor region due to their need to gain malign phenotypes. While the effect of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells upon metastasis is not certain, some studies point out bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) to have this ability due to cell-cell interaction, released cytokines, and organization with the extracellular matrix in the micro-environment. Cross-talk via soluble factors also shifts the metastatic character.