Monocyte-derived foam cells figure prominently in rupture-prone regions of atherosclerotic plaques. Peripheral blood monocytes in culture can produce certain enzymes that degrade extracellular matrix,
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial pediatric solid tumor. At diagnosis, around 70% of patients with metastatic disease present bone-marrow (BM) infiltration; however, the mechanism und
Table 1 represents the calculations reflected in Fig 1. HOS and POS are the non-metastatic human and canine cell lines and 143B and HMPOS are the metastatic human and canine cell lines respectively.
