Fusion of HepG2 cells with mesenchymal stem cells increases cancer-associated and malignant properties: An in vivo metastasis model

Oncology Reports

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 539-547

  Li, Hong ^a,b   Feng, Zhenqing ^b   Tsang, Tom C ^b,c,d,i   Tang, Tian ^b   Jia, Xiaoqin ^b   He, Xianghui ^e   Pennington, Michael E ^c   Badowski, Michael S ^f   Liu, Anna K M ^f   Chen, Deyu ^g   Harris, David T ^d,f   Martinez, Jesse ^d,h   Meade Tollin, Linda C ^c  

^a BINZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Cure Cancer Worldwide Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ China   (China)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Fusion; In vivo models; Invasion; Metastasis; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUSION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL FUSION; CELL MOVEMENT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84903190875     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2014.3264     Document Type: Article

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