Breast cancer cells often invade the bone tissue and remain dormant until they are induced to colonize the metastatic site. Here the authors develop an ex vivo co-culture system consisting of bone and cancer cells from mice and show that CXCL5 has a role in metastatic colonization in the bone.
- Ricardo Romero-Moreno
- Kimberly J. Curtis
- Laurie E. Littlepage