Distinct fibroblast subpopulations associated with bone, brain or intrapulmonary metastasis in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.

"pathologically confirmed cases of nsclc were observed in 14 individuals (supplementary data 1 ).; on average tens of fields of view were counted in each group (supplementary data 2 ) 2 13 to assess degs and tfs between the two groups we compared the two experimental settings using the wilcoxon rank sum test also known as the mann-whitney u test."

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"We thank all the patients for their generous donation of tissue samples for analysis in this study. This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (82172775), Subproject of National Science and Technology Major Project (2020ZX09201‐004) and Naturel Science Foundation of Anhui Province (1908085MH260). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript."