Breast cancer metastasis: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

M Park, D Kim, S Ko, A Kim, K Mo, H Yoon - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. Metastasis is the
leading cause of high mortality in most cancers. Although predicting the early stage of breast …

Natural killer cells: development, maturation, and clinical utilization

AM Abel, C Yang, MS Thakar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are the predominant innate lymphocyte subsets that mediate anti-
tumor and anti-viral responses, and therefore possess promising clinical utilization. NK cells …

The FUS/circEZH2/KLF5/feedback loop contributes to CXCR4-induced liver metastasis of breast cancer by enhancing epithelial-mesenchymal transition

P Liu, Z Wang, X Ou, P Wu, Y Zhang, S Wu, X Xiao… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background Metastasis of breast cancer have caused the majority of cancer-related death
worldwide. The circRNAs are associated with tumorigenesis and metastasis in breast cancer …

Identification of EMT signaling cross-talk and gene regulatory networks by single-cell RNA sequencing

AP Deshmukh, SV Vasaikar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role during normal
development and in cancer progression. EMT is induced by various signaling pathways …

EMT in cancer

T Brabletz, R Kalluri, MA Nieto, RA Weinberg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Similar to embryonic development, changes in cell phenotypes defined as an epithelial to
mesenchymal transition (EMT) have been shown to play a role in the tumorigenic process …

Diverging inflammasome signals in tumorigenesis and potential targeting

R Karki, TD Kanneganti - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are molecular platforms that assemble upon sensing various intracellular
stimuli. Inflammasome assembly leads to activation of caspase 1, thereby promoting the …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts and resistance to anticancer therapies: status, mechanisms, and countermeasures

B Feng, J Wu, B Shen, F Jiang, J Feng - Cancer Cell International, 2022 - Springer
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are critical components of the tumor microenvironment
(TME) with diverse functions such as extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling, modulation of …

EMT: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications

M Singh, N Yelle, C Venugopal, SK Singh - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Metastasis, the dissemination of cancer cells from primary tumors, represents a major hurdle
in the treatment of cancer. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been studied in …

Melatonin, a full service anti-cancer agent: inhibition of initiation, progression and metastasis

RJ Reiter, SA Rosales-Corral, DX Tan… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
There is highly credible evidence that melatonin mitigates cancer at the initiation,
progression and metastasis phases. In many cases, the molecular mechanisms …

The complexity of immune evasion mechanisms throughout the metastatic cascade

NM Haynes, TB Chadwick, BS Parker - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Metastasis, the spread of cancer from a primary site to distant organs, is an important
challenge in oncology. This Review explores the complexities of immune escape …