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In present, ADSCs have received more and more attention for their roles in the development of cancer. In this study, we examined \u03b1-smooth muscle actin (\u03b1-SMA) expression and carcinoma-associated fibroblast (CAF)-like differentiation capabilities in ADSCs from omentum of different patients. The effects of ADSCs on the proliferation and invasion of epithelial ovarian cancer cells (EOCCs) were also assessed in vitro and in vivo. Our results showed that ADSCs from omentum of ovarian cancer patients, no matter whether metastasis or not, expressed higher levels of \u03b1-SMA than ADSCs from patients with benign gynecologic disease. Using direct and indirect co-culture system, we found that EOCCs induced ADSCs to express CAF markers, including \u03b1-SMA and fibroblast activation protein, via the transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-\u03b21) signaling pathway. Moreover, co-cultured ADSCs exhibited functional properties similar to those of CAFs, including the ability to promote EOCCs proliferation, progression and metastasis both in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, blocking the TGF-\u03b21 pathway can counteract the CAF-like differentiation and tumor promotion effect of ADSCs. Our results suggest that ADSCs are a source of CAFs and that they participate in the interaction between EOCCs and the omental microenvironment. EOCCs could induce ADSCs in the omentum to differentiate before ovarian cancer metastasis, which participate in the formation of omental metastatic niches and promote the proliferation and invasion of ovarian cancer.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/carcin\/bgz083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,30]],"date-time":"2019-04-30T19:29:16Z","timestamp":1556652556000},"page":"182-193","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["The metastatic phenotype shift toward myofibroblast of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells promotes ovarian cancer progression"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Huijuan","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yijing","family":"Chu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zaiju","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Cai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zehua","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020042204554993800_CIT0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"115","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.21338","article-title":"Cancer statistics in China, 2015","volume":"66","author":"Chen","year":"2016","journal-title":"CA. 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