Blood cells that work to heal wounds may also develop suitable condition for cancer cells to spread, stated U.S. researchers, Tuesday.

According to the scientists fibrocytes, blood cells that originate from bone marrow, may explain how healthy cells become environmental for cancer.

“It has been known before that cancer cells don’t have an easy access to healthy tissue,” stated Dr. Hendrik van Deventer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“Though we haven’t recognized this cell, yet we believe it may be a fibrocyte” van said

While working with genetically engineered mice Van first time suspected fibrocytes as these were lacked the cell receptor CCR5, which is a cellular gateway that assists controlling the movement of cells through the body and it is also the similar gateway that is used by the human immunodeficiency virus that leads towards AIDS after accessing to immune cells.

The genetically engineered mice that also suffered the skin cancer melanoma were inclined to receive less metastatic tumors than other normal mice with the skin cancer. In their efforts to make these altered mice form more tumors, Van and his team methodically injected these altered mice with different kinds of cells from normal mice.

We tested it with a variety of different cells and found that fibrocytes working, Van said.

Fibrocytes move in the bloodstream to injured areas in healthy human and they develop such changes as are suitable for wounds to heal but according to van these changes may tend to help cancer growth.

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