TMIC-37. INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NORMAL AND TUMOR CELLS IN GLIOMA MICROENVIRONMENT

The interactions between tumors cells and their microenvironment are increasingly recognized as contributors to tumor growth and therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma (GBM). Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) have been implicated as components of the microenvironment of several cancers, but their contribution to GBM remains obscure. Recently we reported that GBMs contain cells resembling human mesenchymal stem cells, called Glioma-associated-MSCs...