Deconstructing the mechanisms and consequences of TGF-β-induced EMT during cancer progression

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-101

  Wendt, Michael K ^a   Tian, Maozhen ^a   Schiemann, William P ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; Chemoresistance epithelial mesenchymal transition; Integrins; Metastasis; Transforming growth factor ; Tumor microenvironment

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IMATINIB; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; MICRORNA; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 3;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857119664     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1199-1     Document Type: Review

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