Cancer represents an extremely complicated ecosystem where cancer cells communicate with non-cancer cells present in the tumour niche through intercellular contacts, paracrine production of bioactive factors and extracellular vesicles, such as exosomes [...].

Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center Academy of Science and Charles University 252 50 Vestec Czech Republic

Department of Pathological Physiology Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Kamenice 5 625 00 Brno Czech Republic

Institute of Anatomy 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University 128 00 Prague Czech Republic

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