Chronic myelogenous leukemia cells convert to myofibroblasts in vitro: effect of vascular endothelial growth factor on development of the microenvironment.
To elucidate the biological characteristics of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells, we observed morphological and functional changes of CML cells during primary long-term culture, in which their morphology changed to that of myofibroblasts with similar molecular characteristics to the parental CML cells including BCR-ABL fusion gene, and produced… (More)