Organotropism: new insights into molecular mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis

W Chen, AD Hoffmann, H Liu, X Liu - NPJ precision oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Metastasis accounts for 90% of breast cancer mortality. Despite the significant progress
made over the past decade in cancer medicine our understanding of metastasis remains …

New blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of AFP-negative hepatocellular carcinoma

T Wang, KH Zhang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
An early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) followed by effective treatment is
currently critical for improving the prognosis and reducing the associated economic burden …

Cancer to bone: a fatal attraction

KN Weilbaecher, TA Guise, LK McCauley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
When cancer metastasizes to bone, considerable pain and deregulated bone remodelling
occurs, greatly diminishing the possibility of cure. Metastasizing tumour cells mobilize and …

Osteopontin/secreted phosphoprotein‐1 harnesses glial‐, immune‐, and neuronal cell ligand‐receptor interactions to sense and regulate acute and chronic …

A Yim, C Smith, AM Brown - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Osteopontin (OPN) also known by its official gene designation secreted phosphoprotein‐1
(SPP1) is a fascinating, multifunctional protein expressed in a number of cell types that …

New insights into the correlations between circulating tumor cells and target organ metastasis

Q Zhan, B Liu, X Situ, Y Luo, T Fu, Y Wang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Organ-specific metastasis is the primary cause of cancer patient death. The distant
metastasis of tumor cells to specific organs depends on both the intrinsic characteristics of …

[HTML][HTML] Osteopontin as a multifaceted driver of bone metastasis and drug resistance

X Pang, K Gong, X Zhang, S Wu, Y Cui… - Pharmacological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Metastasis to bone frequently occurs in majority of patients with advanced breast cancer and
prostate cancer, leading to devastating skeletal-related events and substantially reducing …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of osteopontin as a novel marker for early hepatocellular carcinoma

S Shang, A Plymoth, S Ge, Z Feng, HR Rosen… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to identify a biomarker that could improve alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP)
performance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance among patients with cirrhosis …

Integrin signaling in glioma pathogenesis: from biology to therapy

A Ellert-Miklaszewska, K Poleszak… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Integrins are a large family of transmembrane adhesion receptors, which play a key role in
interactions of a cell with the surrounding stroma. Integrins are comprised of non-covalently …

Osteopontin at the crossroads of inflammation and tumor progression

LM Castello, D Raineri, L Salmi… - Mediators of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Complex interactions between tumor and host cells regulate systemic tumor dissemination,
a process that begins early at the primary tumor site and goes on until tumor cells detach …

SPP1 promotes enzalutamide resistance and epithelial‐mesenchymal‐transition activation in castration‐resistant prostate cancer via PI3K/AKT and ERK1/2 pathways

X Pang, J Zhang, X He, Y Gu, B Qian… - Oxidative Medicine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bottleneck arising from castration‐resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treatment is its high
metastasis potential and antiandrogen drug resistance, which severely affects survival time …