Illuminating the metastatic process

E Sahai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Until recently most studies of metastasis only measured the end point of the process—
macroscopic metastases. Although these studies have provided much useful information …

[HTML][HTML] Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in prostate cancer: its implications in diagnostics and therapeutics

KS Allemailem, A Almatroudi, F Alrumaihi… - American journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed malignancies in developed
countries and approximately 248,530 new cases of prostate cancer are likely to be …

Tissue-penetrating delivery of compounds and nanoparticles into tumors

KN Sugahara, T Teesalu, PP Karmali, VR Kotamraju… - Cancer cell, 2009 - cell.com
Poor penetration of drugs into tumors is a major obstacle in tumor treatment. We describe a
strategy for peptide-mediated delivery of compounds deep into the tumor parenchyma that …

Systemic administration of optimized aptamer-siRNA chimeras promotes regression of PSMA-expressing tumors

JP Dassie, X Liu, GS Thomas, RM Whitaker… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Prostate cancer cells expressing prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) have been
targeted with RNA aptamer–small interfering (si) RNA chimeras, but therapeutic efficacy in …

[HTML][HTML] PD-L1 confers glioblastoma multiforme malignancy via Ras binding and Ras/Erk/EMT activation

XY Qiu, DX Hu, WQ Chen, RQ Chen, SR Qian… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor due to the lack of
effective therapeutic drugs. Cancer therapy targeting programmed cell death protein 1 (PD …

Resistance to fluid shear stress is a conserved biophysical property of malignant cells

JM Barnes, JT Nauseef, MD Henry - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
During metastasis, cancer cells enter the circulation in order to gain access to distant
tissues, but how this fluid microenvironment influences cancer cell biology is poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer cells resist mechanical destruction in circulation via RhoA/actomyosin-dependent mechano-adaptation

DL Moose, BL Krog, TH Kim, L Zhao, S Williams-Perez… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
During metastasis, cancer cells are exposed to potentially destructive hemodynamic forces
including fluid shear stress (FSS) while en route to distant sites. However, prior work …

A targetable GATA2-IGF2 axis confers aggressiveness in lethal prostate cancer

SJ Vidal, V Rodriguez-Bravo, SA Quinn… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Elucidating the determinants of aggressiveness in lethal prostate cancer may stimulate
therapeutic strategies that improve clinical outcomes. We used experimental models and …

The lysyl oxidase inhibitor, β-aminopropionitrile, diminishes the metastatic colonization potential of circulating breast cancer cells

A Bondareva, CM Downey, F Ayres, W Liu, SK Boyd… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Lysyl oxidase (LOX), an extracellular matrix remodeling enzyme, appears to have a role in
promoting breast cancer cell motility and invasiveness. In addition, increased LOX …

ZEB1 enhances transendothelial migration and represses the epithelial phenotype of prostate cancer cells

JM Drake, G Strohbehn, TB Bair… - Molecular biology of …, 2009 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Metastatic colonization involves cancer cell lodgment or adherence in the microvasculature
and subsequent migration of those cells across the endothelium into a secondary organ site …